Board of Directors
The Board of Directors determines the main direction of the program operation and development.
Consortium Director
Simona Šafaříková (Palacký University Olomouc)
Simona Šafaříková focuses on development opportunities in different regions of Asia. She also teaches qualitative research methods and is involved in global education. She joined the Department of Development & Environmental Studies in 2008. In the first semester of GLODEP at Palacky University she is involved in the teaching of Development Geography and Research Methods in Development. Her research interests are the role of sport in development and the impact of physical activities on solutions to development problems. Simona has published several academic articles in the field of sport and development. She has experience from several research and teaching stays abroad (e.g. Mexico, Colombia, South Africa, Mongolia, France).
Local Directors
Lenka Dušková (Palacký University Olomouc)
Lenka Dušková has been working at the Department of Development and Environmental Studies since 2007. She focuses on issues of “conflict sensitive development” and the use of mediation and facilitation techniques in project management in transforming and/or post-conflict regions. She is a lecturer of courses: Security, Conflict and Development; Politico-geographical Processes in Developing World (good-governance), Qualitative Research Methods and Development Theories. Recently, she has done research on impacts of civil society organizations in Bosnia and Herzegovina; community development in Central and Eastern Europe and Balkans, socio-ecological systems and knowledge for development systems in Zambia. Besides academia, she is engaged in conflict transformation training and consultancy and community mapping including the development of participatory tools. In her work she emphasizes active participation and use of dialogue.
Pascale Combes Motel (University Clermont Auvergne)
Pascale Combes Motel has been a full Professor of Economics at the School of Economics, Université Clermont Auvergne, since 1999. She obtained a degree in agricultural engineering in 1988 and her PhD in economics in 1992. Before being appointed Associate Professor at the University of Caen Basse Normandie in 1993, she was a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Economics at Université Laval (Québec, Canada).
Pascale Combes Motel supervises two tracks of the Master’s degree taught at the School of Economics: the “Développement durable” track (Sustainable development) with Professor Sonia Schwartz and the English-taught track “Development Economics” with Professor J-L. Combes. She is the local director of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree GLODEP (Global Development Policy), which welcomed its first cohort of students in 2018. She teaches in French and English from Bachelor to Master’s level: macroeconomics, macro-dynamics, optimisation for economists, environmental and natural resource economics, and the economics of sustainable development.
Pascale Combes Motel is affiliated with the LEO (Laboratoire d’Economie d’Orléans – Orléans Economics Laboratory). Her research interests relate to the economics of sustainable development, mining activities, tropical deforestation, conflicts and natural resources, energy transition, and protected areas. She has published in the Journal of African Economics, Revue Economique, Economic Modelling, Environment and Development Economics, Energy Economics, World Development, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Economic Modelling, and Ecological Economics. She currently supervises 6 PhD students. She is an associate editor for the Journal of Forest Economics and International Economics.
CV – Available at: https://cv.hal.science/pascale-combes-motel
Sebastian Vollmer (University of Göttingen)
Sebastian Vollmer is Professor of Development Economics at the University of Göttingen. His research examines the economic and social causes and consequences of bad health, access to care for cardio-metabolic diseases in the global south, the impact of nutrition interventions on child development and the long-run determinants of economic development. Sebastian Vollmer studied Mathematics and Economics at the University of Göttingen and also received his PhD in Economics from the University of Göttingen. He was Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University, Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College and Adjunct Professor of Global Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He regularly works as a consultant for international organizations such as the World Bank, UNICEF, UNDP, UNESCO, WFP, FAO and several other organizations. He has published more than 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals (including Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Lancet and Nature). Professor Vollmer has received the KfW Development Bank Prize for Excellence in Applied Development Research and the Science Award of the German Society of Health Economics. He has supervised 15 PhD theses as first supervisor and more than 30 as second or third supervisor or external committee member.