Hans-Dieter Evers

Prof.

Education

Hans-Dieter Evers (emeritus Professor of Development Planning and Senior Fellow, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn) is Visiting Research Fellow, KITA, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. After finishing his postgraduate education in 1962 in sociology, economics and geography at the University of Freiburg, Germany, he became a lecturer in sociology at Monash University, Melbourne. In 1967 he was appointed Associate Professor of Sociology at Yale University, where he was also Director of Graduate Southeast Asia Studies. From 1971 to 74 he was Professor and Head, Department of Sociology, University of Singapore and from 1974 to 2011 Professor, Bielefeld University, Germany.