Prof. Dr. Solvay Gerke
- Ghana
- Indonesia
- Malaysia
1. Governance of Cultural and Bio-Diversity in Southeast Asia 2. Local knowledge and development
Research Group Culture, Knowledge and Development (ZEFa)
Solvay Gerke is the director of the Department of Political and Cultural Change of the Centre for Development Research, University of Bonn, a position she is holding since 2005. From 2011 until 2013 she was visiting professor at the Centre for Policy Research and International Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang. She was formerly professor of Southeast Asian studies and director of the Institute of Oriental and Asian Studies, University of Bonn. She has carried out field research in Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam and is leading several large research projects in Vietnam, China and Ghana dealing with knowledge management, water resources management and governance issues. She has worked as a consultant for several German and international organisations. She is the author of Social Change and Life Planning of Rural Javanese Women (Breitenbach, 1992), co-editor of The Straits of Malacca: Knowledge and Diversity (LIT, 2008) and Beyond the Knowledge Trap: Developing Asia’s Knowledge-Based Economies (World Scientific, 2011). A new book “Penang and the Straits of Malacca: Connecting Oceans, Societies and Knowledge” will be published in 2015.
Institute of Asian Studies, University of Bonn. School of Social Sciences, Science Universiy of Malaysia, Penang
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