Research field: My major research interest is global transformation and processes of late economic development with a particular emphasis on the Far East. I work with theories of globalisation, theories of the developmental state and broader institutional theory. I have specialised in late industrialisation in Taiwan and Thailand – with a special focus on the role of the state in their industrial upgrading processes.

Teaching field: I have taught in the broad field of socio-economic development in developing countries in a global perspective. This includes among other the following issues or themes: globalisation, new international division of labour, transnational companies, global value chains, regionalisation, global governance, global inequality, NICs, industrial strategies, industrial transformation, financial crisis, developmental states, weak states, good governance, institutional capacity and policy cycles.

CURRICULUM VITAE

Name:  Laurids S. Lauridsen

Date of birth:  23 April, 1951.

Marital Status:  Married, two children.

Home address:  Kongebakken 1, DK-4000 Roskilde Tel.: 46-370841.

Institutional affiliation:Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, 23.2, P.O. Box 260, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark, Tel.:  +45-46742017 E-mail: lsl@ruc.dk

Formal Education: M.Sc. (Political Science), Aarhus University, 1979,  Ph.D./Licentiatgrad (Geography), Roskilde University, 1986, Dr. scient.soc. 2008.

Employment record:

2006 to present: Professor, Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University.

2003 to 2006:    Professor, Department of Geography and International Development Studies, Roskilde University.

2001 to 2003:    Research professor, same department

1986 to 2001:    Associate professor, same department

1985 to 1986:    Research Assistant, International Development Studies, Roskilde University.

1982 to 1985:    Research Fellow, Department of Geography, Socio-economic Analysis and Computer Science,Roskilde University.

1980 to 1982:    Assistant Professor, same department. 

1979 to 1980:    Civilian military service.

Administrative responsibilities at RUC:

2006 to present: Research group leader

2009 to 2010:    Director of the Graduate School of International Development Studies

1987 to 2006:    Member, Academic Committee, Department of Geography, Socio-Economic Analysis and Computer Science/Department of Geography and International Development Studies, Roskilde University.

1994 to 2006:    Deputy Head of the Department of Geography and International Development Studies.

1991 to 1993:    Member, Governing Board (Konsistorium),  Roskilde University.

1988 to 1989:    Member, Study Council for International Development Studies, Roskilde University.

1986 to 1989 and 1993 to 1994: Chairman, Internship Committee, International Development Studies.

Visiting Scholarships:

Aug. 1999 to August 2000: Visiting Scholar at International and Area Studies, University of Berkeley, California, USA

September to November 1997: Visiting Scholar at Institute for National Policy Research (INPR) and Programme for Southeast Asia (PROSEA), Academia Sinica, Taiwan

October to December 1996:  Visiting Scholar at the Social Research Institute (CUSRI),Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Selected external assignments:

2010 to present: Chairman of the board of the Danish Institute of International Studies (DIIS)

2009 to 2011:    Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT)

2009 to  present: Member of the Board of the Danish Centre for Human Rights and International Studies (DCISM)

2005 to 2008:     Member of the Programming Committee for Globalisation and Marginalisation, The Research Council of Norway

2004 to present:  Member of the Governing Board of the Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT)

1998 to 2005:  Member of the editorial committee of Forum for Development Studies, NUPI, Oslo.

1994 to 2010:  External examiner, Department of Geography, Copenhagen University

1993 to present:  External examiner (censor), Institutes of Political Sciences, Aarhus University and Copenhagen University

1995 to 1999:     Deputy chairman, The Board of Centre for Development  Research, Copenhagen

1987 to 1990:     Chairman, the Danish Association of Development Researchers (FAU)

1988 to 1989:     Member, the National Committee for Internationalisation of the Danish Education System, Ministry of Education

1974 to 1976:     Member, editorial board of POLITICA  (a journal of political science).

Research activities

2008 to present   Research on Globalisation and Developmental Governance with an emphasis on the role of policies, institutions and politics

1999 to 2008:     Research on Globalisation - Changing global and  regional conditions for weak states in less developed  countries - industrial transformation in Southeast Asia. Field research in Thailand during January 2001.  Funding from the Danish Social Science Research Council

1994 to 2005:     Participation in research collaboration  - "Political and Cultural Institutions in Development"- between International Development Studies, Roskilde, Centre  for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, and Centre for Basic Research, Kampala  on "Institutional frameworks  for industrial development". Funding from the ENRECA, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1994 - 1998:      Research on institutional frameworks for industrial  development in Taiwan and Thailand. Shorter research  contact visits to Thailand, January 1993. Field research in Thailand October-December 1996. Field research in Taiwan September-October 1997. Funding from the  Danish Research Council for Developing Countries.

1991 to 1995:     Research on industrial relations and the labour market  in Taiwan. Field research in Hong Kong and Taiwan, August 1991. Research presentation in Taiwan, March 1992.

1988 to 1991:     Research on foreign investments and export-led industrialisation in South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia  and the Philippines

1985 to 1987:     Research on the Newly Industrializing Countries (NICs) in a changing world economy, with a case study of Taiwan. Field research in Taiwan 1983. The final PhD  report was printed in two volumes (820 pages) in l985

PhD students                                          

      Graduated:

• Henrik Knudsen “Agricultural Biotechnology for Sustainable Development: The case of Semi-Arid India” (1995)
• Kristen Nordhaug “State and Hegemony in Taiwan’s Economic Transformation” (1996)
• Peter Triantafillou “Governing Pests, pesticides and Farmers in Malaysian Agriculture. A Genealogy of Modern Pest Control” (1998)
• Peter Gammeltoft “Embedded Flexible Collaboration and Development of Technological Capability (2001)
• Jens Peter Kragelund “Donors, Dollars and Development, Insights into the Impacts of Danida’s Private Sector Development Programme in Ghana” (2006)
• Jesper Zeuthen “Ruling Through Differentiation in China. Chengdu’s Urban-Rural Integration Policy” (2010)
• Jakob Trane Ibsen “Does democratic decentralisationbenefit poor groups politically? The case of Indonesia” (2011)

      Supervise:

• Karen Sau Jespersen ,“Value chain analysis of aquaculture products”
• Hanna Ziadeh “State Formation and Nation Building in a Human Right perspective in Arab States. The case of Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen (between 1945 and 2007)”
• Jakob Lindahl “Linking up to East Asian ProductionNetworks: Regional Investment and its Impact on Industrial Upgrading in Vietnam”

Consultancy assignments:

1997:    Consultant on an Assessment of UNIDO (Capacity Development for Sustainable Industrial Development under Changed Conditions) for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Danida 

1993:    Consultant on a desk study for the Danish Ministry of Industry on how to promote Danish commercial interests in the Far East (South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Malaysia)

Selected  publications 1990-2010:      

Smallness no longer appropriate. State and industrial adjustment in Taiwan, in Meine Pieter van Dijk and Henrik Secher Marcussen, Industrialization in the Third World: The Need for Alternative Strategies, Frank Cass, London, l990.

Labour institutions and flexible capitalism in Taiwan, in Gerry Rodgers, Klárá Foti and Laurids Lauridsen (eds), The institutional approach to labour and development, Frank Cass, London, 1995.

New technologies, flexibilization and the changing capital-labour relations - the East Asian NICs, with special reference to Taiwan and South Korea; in A.K. Bagchi (ed), New Technology and the Workers' Response, Microelectronics, Labour and Society, Sage, New Delhi, Thousands Oaks and London, 1995.

Et skridt frem og to tilbage. Kapitalens internationalisering eller økonomiens globalisering. Den Ny Verden 30. årg. , nr. 3, 1997.

Globalisering, stat og økonomisk omstrukturering i Taiwan, i Jan Hesselberg (red.) Utviklingsgeografi, Tano-Aschehoug, Oslo 1998.

Financial globalisation, Financial Crisis and State Autonomy - the Asian Experience in John Degnbol-Martinussen (ed) External and Internal Constraints on Policy Making: How Autonomous are the States? International Development Studies Occasional Paper No. 20, Roskilde University 1999 (pp.153-176)

The Financial Crisis in Thailand: Causes, Conduct and Consequences? World Development, Vol. 26, No. 8, 1998, pp. 1575-1591.

U-landene i en globaliseret verdensorden (ni kapitler), i Hans Branner, Laurids S. Lauridsen og Hans Mouritzen, 'International Politik, Danmark og U-landene', Forlaget Columbus, 2001.

Degnbol-Martinussen, John and Laurids S. Lauridsen, "Introduction: Changing Global and Regional Conditions for National Economic Restructuring in Asia", in: A Changing Global and Regional Conditions for National Economic Restructuring in Asia", The European Journal of Development Research, Special Issue, Vol. 14, No. 1 (June 2002) (special section 243 pp). Degnbol-Martinussen, John and Laurids S. Lauridsen (guest editors). (pp 1-4)."

Coping with the Tripple Challenge of Globalisation, Liberalisation and Crisis: The Role of Industrial Technology Policies and Technology Institutions in Thailand, in "Changing Global and Regional Conditions for National Economic Restructuring in Asia", The European Journal of Development Research, Special Issue, Vol. 14, No. 1 (June 2002) (pp. 101-125).

Struggling with globalisation in Thailand. Accumulation, learning or market competition, Southeast East Asia Research 10, 2, 2002 (pp. 155-183).

Foreign Direct Investment, Linkage formation and Supplier Development in Thailand during the 1990s - The role of state governance. The European Journal of Development Research Vol. 16, Number 3, Autumn 2004 (Special edition on Understanding FDI-Assisted Economic Development Edited by Rajneesh Narula and Sanjaya Lall) (pp. 561-586)

Foreign Direct Investments, Linkage Formation and Supplier Development during the 1990s: The Role of State Governance,in Understanding FDI-Assisted Economic Development (s. 115 -140). London and New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. 2006. (Also published in EDJR 2004).

Governance, technology and Development, in International Development Governance: Publication Administration and Public Policy (s. 761 -775). CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group 2006.

Global webs - transnational companies and global production networks, chapter 4 in Fleming and Nordhaug (eds) Global Challenges - Local responses. An Institutional Perspective on Economic Transformation in Asia. Occasional Paper 25. International development studies, RUC, 2006.

States, institutions and industrial development. Industrial deepening and upgrading policies in Taiwan and Thailand compared. Vol. 1 (598 pages), Shaker Verlag, Aachen 2008. 

States, institutions and industrial development. Industrial deepening and upgrading policies in Taiwan and Thailand compared. Vol. 2. (456 pages), Shaker Verlag, Aachen 2008.

The Policies and Politics of Industrial Upgrading in Thailand during the Thaksin Era (2001-2006), Asian Politics and Policy, Vol. 1, Number 3, 2009, pp. 409-434.

“Strategic Industrial Policy and Latecomer Development: The What, the Why and the How”, Forum for Development Studies, Vol. 37, No. 1, March, 2010, pp. 7-32.