Jacques Poot#
| Membership Number: | 3352 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | NEW ZEALAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.waikato.ac.nz/nidea |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2004 Professor of Population Economics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
- 1997 - 2003 Associate Professor, School of Economics and Finance, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
- 1994 - 1997 Foreign Professor, Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan
- 1993 - 1994 Reader, School of Economics and Finance, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
- 1987 - 1992 Senior Lecturer, School of Economics and Finance, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
- 1982 - 1986 Lecturer, Department of Eonomics, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
- 1979 - 1981 Junior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
- 1976 - 1978 Research Assistant, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration,Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Fields of Scholarship
- Economics of population (migration, fertility, labour force, ageing)
- Meta-analysis
- Monopsony in local labour markets
- “New Economic Geography” and implications for New Zealand
- Regional development
- Globalisation
- Empirical evidence for endogenous growth
- Transportation and environmental policy
- Housing markets
- Forecasting
Honours and Awards
- International Prize of Environmental Creation 2012, International Journal of Environmental Creation, Hokkaido, Japan
- August 2010 – July 2011 Visiting Professor of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2008-2010 Member, Spinoza Prize Selection Commission, The Netherlands
- 2008-2010 Member, Jury, EIB European Prize in Regional Science
- since November 2009 Research Fellow, IZA – Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn
- since July 2007 External Research Fellow, Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), University College London
- since April 2007 Affiliate, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research Trust
- since April 2002 Elected Corresponding Member (Dutch equivalent of Honorary Fellow), Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- since 1998 Adjunct Spinoza Professor, Department of Spatial Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Free University, Amsterdam
- 1998-2006 Pacific Editor, Papers in Regional Science
- 1997-1999 Elected Councillor-at-Large, Regional Science Association International
- 1998-1999 President, Pacific Regional Science Conference Organisation
- November - December 1991 Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Wassenaar
- May - August 1991 Visiting Fellow, University of Utrecht
- January - April 1991 and November 1984 - January 1985 Visiting Fellow, Australian National University
- 1988 – 2008 Trustee of the New Zealand - Netherlands Foundation
- August - October 1987 Claude McCarthy Fellow
- June/July 1986 and 2004 Professional Associate, Population Programme, East-West Centre, Honolulu, Hawaii
- 1982-1989 Member of the Population Monitoring Group of the New Zealand Planning Council
- Winner of the 1985 Ph.D. level Dissertation Medal of the Regional Science Association (Australia and New Zealand Section)
