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Sonja Opper
Gad Rausing Professor of International Economics and Business
Department of Economics, Lund University
P.O. Box 7082 SE-220 07 Lund
phone: 46-46-2227906
e-mail: sonja.opper@nek.lu.se

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EDUCATION
Professorship qualification thesis (Habilitation);
    Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen, July 22, 2003
Ph.D. in Economics, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen, May 1999, Dissertation: "Economic Reforms and
    Employment Change in China", summa cum laude
M.A. in Economics, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen, 1995
Franz-Haniel Highschool, Duisburg 1987


RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
•    Economic reforms in the PR of China
•    Transformation of economic systems / The rise of capitalism
•    Comparative economic systems
•    New institutional economics
•    Entrepreneurship


ACADEMIC POSITIONS
•    Gad Rausing Professor of International Economics (with a focus on China), Lund University, 2005-
•    Associate professor (Privatdozentin) at the Economic Faculty of Tübingen University, 2003-2005.
•    Assistant professor at the Economic Faculty of Tübingen University, 1999-2003.
•    Research assistant at the Economic Faculty of Tübingen University, 1995-1999.


SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
•    VG-Wort; support for publication of professorship qualification thesis, 2004
•    Research grant of the German Science Foundation, 2000-2002
•    Award of excellence for Ph.D thesis from the Chamber of Industry and Commerce, 1999
•    Travel grant from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), 1996
•    Scholarship from the state of Baden-Württemberg, 1996-1997

SELECTED ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
•    Member of the Organizing Committee of the 4th annual meeting of the International Society for New
     Institutional Economics (ISNIE), Tübingen, September 2000
•    Academic Director of the International summer school on New Institutional Economics, Sofia, 09/2003
•    Member of the paper selection committee of the 7th annual meeting of ISNIE,
     Budapest, 09/2003
•    Board Member of the International Society for New Institutional Economics, 2003-2006
•    Member of the paper selection committee of the 8th annual meeting of ISNIE, Tuscon
     (Arizona), 09/2004
•    Board Member of the Center for East and Southeast-Asian Studies, Lund University, 2006-

MEMBERSHIPS:
American Economic Association (AEA)
Association for Social Science China (ASC)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Asienkunde (DGA)
European Economic Association (EEA)
Founding Member of the International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR)
International Society for New Institutional Economics (ISNIE)
Verein für Socialpolitik (VfS)