Louis Emmerij (1934- ) is a senior research fellow at The City University of New York’s Graduate Center and co-director of the UN Intellectual History Project. He was special advisor to the president of the Inter-American Development Bank, president of the OECD Development Centre, rector of the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, and director of the ILO World Employment Programme. He studied in Paris, Bologna, and New York, and has a PhD from the University of Paris and a honorary doctorate from the University of Ghent, Belgium. He has published twenty books and about 150 articles in the fields of the economics of education, labor market, and development studies.

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