Luc Soete (born 15 September 1950,

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) is a Belgian economist. He is a Professor and the Dean of th
Brussels School of Governance
He is also a member of th
Advisory Board of the University of Sussex Business School
and of the Advisory Board of the UNU Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) in Bruges, Belgium. He is a former

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and professor of International Economic Relations at the School of Business and Economics,

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, and former director of UNU-MERIT, a joint research institute of the

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(UNU) and Maastricht University. Luc Soete is a member of the Dutch scientific advisory body (AWTI) and the

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(KNAW) since 2010. He serves on th
Board of Supervisors
of the

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. Luc Soete studied general economic sciences and development economy at

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and started his career as researcher at the Economy Department of the

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. In 1978 he obtained his PhD in Economy at the

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. He has closely worked and co-authored several publications with his mentor

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. He worked for the Institute of Development Studies and the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), both of the University of Sussex, and at the Economy Department of

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. In 1986 he became professor at the Rijksuniversiteit Limburg (now

), in

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, the

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, where in 1988 he founded the Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT). In 2006 MERIT merged with the UNU Institute for New Technologies (UNU-INTECH), which had been founded in 1990. In 2010 he was appointed dean of the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance (MGSoG). As of September 2012, Soete served as Rector Magnificus of Maastricht University from 2012 to 2016. Soete has also served as acting vice-director of the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry (DSTI) of the

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(OECD), member of various High Level Expert Groups of the

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as well as various expert advisory panels for the Dutch, Belgian and Flemish governments. Luc Soete received the Belgian Commander of the Order of the Crown in 2006, and an

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from

in 2010.

References

External links

Personal website of Luc Soete

Website UNU-MERIT

Sources

{{DEFAULTSORT:Soete, Luc 1950 births Living people Belgian economists Innovation economists Rectors of universities in the Netherlands Maastricht University faculty University of Antwerp faculty Science and Technology Policy Research alumni Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences People from Molenbeek-Saint-Jean