Albert Ernst Giovanni Schram (born 2 September 1964, in De Bilt, the Netherlands) is the Vice Chancellor of the Papua New Guinea University of Technology (UNITECH). He took over on 7 February 2012 from Misty Baloiloi, who had been Vice-Chancellor for 17 years. He is also Adjunct Professor at James Cook University'sbr>Cairns Institute
(Australia) and at the University of Turabobr>Business School
(

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Biography

Schram completed the Gymnasium B program a
Het Nieuwe Lyceum
in Bilthoven, and did his Masters in European history at the University of Utrecht, In 1994, he obtained his doctorate degree in the field of

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from the

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in Fiesole (Italy). Since then he has taken up residence in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Belgium, the Netherlands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Italy, and Papua New Guinea. He is married and has no children.

Academic Leadership

From 1994 to 2003 Schram worked in San José,

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at the Latin American University of Science and Technology ULACIT where he attained the professor's rank in 1999, and supervised 5 PhD theses. From 1999 to 2003, he coordinated an environmental economics program for Central America at the

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, and also worked as advisor and environmental auditor for th
Costa Rican Ministry of Environment
and the Ecological Fla

program for environmental management. For two and half years, he was research fellow at the University of Ghent'
Center for Environmental Economics and Management
In 2005, he was Resident Lecturer and briefly Acting Director at th
School for Field Studies
"Center for Marine Resources Studies" on

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(Turks and Caicos Islands). In 2006, he became Academic Director at the Zuyd University'
Maastricht Hotel Management School
(the Netherlands). From 2007 to 2011, he was Research Funding Advisor at the Maastricht University'
School of Business and Economics

Academic and Policy Work

Schram has published his PhD thesis with

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in 1997 with the title "Railways and the Formation of the Italian State in the Nineteenth Centur

Afterwards he published on a wide variety of topics in management and social sciences:

corporate social responsibility Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a form of international private business self-regulation which aims to contribute to societal goals of a philanthropic, activist, or charitable nature by engaging in or supporting volunteering or ethicall ...

environmental A biophysical environment is a biotic and abiotic surrounding of an organism or population, and consequently includes the factors that have an influence in their survival, development, and evolution. A biophysical environment can vary in scale f ...

and experimental economics, economic valuation,

climate change In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to E ...

green economy A green economy is an economy that aims at reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities, and that aims for sustainable development without degrading the environment. It is closely related with ecological economics, but has a more politi ...

time-use research Time-use research is an interdisciplinary field of study dedicated to learning how people allocate their time during an average day. Work intensity is the umbrella topic that incorporates time use, specifically time poverty. The comprehensive ap ...

, health care management and risk assessment. In 2011, he carried out the policy review on corporate social responsibility for the Directorate General for Research and Innovation (European Commission). In 2011, he was team leader for the scoping study on the

for the European External Action Service for the Rio+20 UN summit. His fundamental research interests are the role of multi-national companies and emerging large technological systems in social and economic development in the long run.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Schram, Albert 1964 births Living people Vice-chancellors of universities in Papua New Guinea People from De Bilt James Cook University faculty Utrecht University alumni Dutch emigrants to Italy University of Costa Rica faculty Ghent University faculty Maastricht University faculty