| bio | Professor
Dr. Hans van Ginkel is the Rector of the United Nations University,
Tokyo, since September 1997. He was elected President of the
International Association of Universities (IAU, Paris) in August 2000
and served until July 2004. He is Vice-chair of the Board of Trustees,
of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT, Bangkok), Member of the
Academia Europaea; Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Aerospace
Survey and Earth Sciences (ITC, Enschede); and the former Rector of
Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He serves as a member and
officer in several professional associations and organizations. Holds
a Ph.D. cum laude from Utrecht University (1979) and honorary
doctorates from Universitatea Babes-Bolyai, Cluj, Romania (1997),
State University of California (Sacramento) (2003), and University of
Ghana, Legon, Ghana (2005). His fields of interest are urban and
regional development, population, housing studies, science policy,
internationalization and university management. He has published
widely on these areas, and has contributed extensively to the work of
various international educational organizations. |
