HHB is glad to welcome Ewout Frankema – Full professor and chair of Rural and Environmental History at Wageningen University – as a new HHB Researcher.

Prof. Frankema is elected member of the Young Academy of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences and research fellow of the UK Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). His research agenda focuses on a deeper understanding of the long-term comparative economic development of developing regions (Africa, Latin America, Asia) and the historical origins and nature of present-day global inequality.

He has studied History, Economics and Philosophy at the University of Groningen, where he obtained his PhD in Economics in 2008. In 2013 he won the prestigious Arthur H. Cole Prize for the best paper in the Journal of Economic History.