Pieter Bottelier

Adjunct Professor,

The Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies

Dr. Pieter Bottelier is an international economist, China scholar and consultant.  He has taught as an adjunct lecturer at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.  Dr. Bottelier has been an adjunct professor at The Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies since 1999, and was recently named associate professor. 

Dr. Bottelier worked at the World Bank between 1970-1998.  He served as Senior Advisor to the Vice President for East Asia, 1997-98; Chief of the World Bank’s Resident Mission in Beijing, 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.  He also carried out various assignments in Africa as an economic analyst between 1970-79.

Before joining the World Bank, Dr. Bottelier was Economic Advisor to the Zambian Ministry of Finance, 1965-67 and 1968-70; consultant to UNCTAD on the global market for non-ferrous metal, 1968; Lecturer at Amsterdam University, 1964; and Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, 1963. 

Dr. Bottelier received his education at the University of Amsterdam and MIT.    

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