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  Pieter Bottelier
  JHU/SAIS
 

Professor Pieter Bottelier is an economist and China scholar and has served as a Senior Adjunct Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) since 1999. He has also served as a senior advisor on China, and an Adjunct Lecturer at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government in 2001-03 and at Georgetown University in 2004. He is the author of many articles on China's economy.

In Professor Bottelier’s career with the World Bank from 1970-98 he served as Senior Advisor to the Vice President for East Asia in 1997-98; Chief of the World Bank's Resident Mission in Beijing from 1993-97; consecutive directorships for Latin America and North Africa, 1987-93; Division Chief for Mexico, 1983-87; resident Chief Economist in Jakarta, Indonesia, 1979-83; and diverse economist assignments for East- and West African countries from 1970-79.

Previously, he was the advisor in the Ministry of Finance Zambia (Lusaka) from 1965-67; consultant to UNCTAD (Geneva) on the global market for virgin and scrap non-ferrous metals, 1968, and Chief Economist and Marketing Director of the (then) Zambian State-owned copper company (Lusaka), 1968-70.

Professor Bottelier has earned degrees from the University of Amsterdam (1954-62) and MIT. He was a Harkness Fellow of the Commonwealth Fund in New York and a Research Associate at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. from 1963-64.