Philip Verwimp

Biography

Philip obtained his PhD in Economics from the KU Leuven in January 2003 with a dissertation on the political economy of development and genocide in Rwanda. He studied Economics and Sociology in Antwerp, Leuven and Göttingen. Philip specialises in the economic causes and consequences of conflict at the micro-level and has done quantitative work on the death toll of the genocide and on the demography of post-genocide Rwanda. He currently works on poverty, health, gender and entrepreneurship in conflict-affected countries. He co-founded and co-directs the Households in Conflict Network (http://www.hicn.org/). Philip received a doctoral fellowship from the Fund for Scientific Research (1997-2001) and was a Fellow of the Belgian-American Educational Foundation (1998) and a Fulbright-Hays Fellow (2004) at Yale University. He worked for the World Bank as a Poverty Economist (2005) and received the Jacques Rozenberg Award from the Auschwitz Foundation for his dissertation. He also won two Best Paper Awards from the Journal of Peace Research and from the European Society of Criminology. Philip taught Development Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam (Institute of Social Studies), the University of Antwerp, Leuven, Utrecht and the National University of Burundi. He currently teaches Development Economics at ULB where he holds the Alain and Marie Philippson Chair in Sustainable Human Development.

Research Interest

Development Economics