Professor Ludo Cuyvers is Emeritus Professor and Director of the Centre for ASEAN Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is also extra-ordinary professor at the North-West University, South Africa, and associate research fellow of the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), Bruges, Belgium.
Prof. Cuyvers received his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Applied Economics of the University of Antwerp. He published in international journals, among which European Economic Review, Economica, Economic Journal, Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics, Long Range Planning, Journal of Asian Economics, International Marketing Review, and many others. He also edited three books with international publishers. His most recent books are The Economic Ideas of Marx’s Capital - Steps Towards Post-Keynesian Economics (Routledge, 2017) and Neo-Marxism and Post-Keynesian Economics – From Kalecki to Sraffa and Joan Robinson (Routledge, 2022).
Between 1989 and 2009 Prof. Cuyvers was a member of the Board of Directors of Office National du Ducroire (Brussels), the Belgian federal credit insurance company, and between 1991 and 2015 also of that of Flanders Investment & Trade, the export and investment promotion organisation of the Flemish region of Belgium.
Prof. Cuyvers has a long and wide-ranging international experience. Between 1987 and 1992 he was President of a Belgian export training centre. Between 1991 and 2010 he was directing interuniversity cooperation projects in various Southeast Asian countries, and since 2001 he is regularly visiting professor at the NIDA Business School, Bangkok, Thailand. From 1999 until 2015, Prof. Cuyvers was Chairman of the European Institute for Asian Studies, a Brussels based think tank. Besides being consultant on export promotion for the Belgian and the Flemish Government, he also acted as consultant for the European Commission, the European Parliament, the International Labour Office and the Department of Trade and Industry (dti), South Africa.