Jan Lust, PhD

Jan Lust, PhD, Lecturer, holds a PhD in Development Studies from the Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico and a master’s in Economy from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Lust is the author of several books and book chapters published by Routledge and Palgrave Macmillan, and has written extensively on economic development models, extractivism, labour precarity and inequality. His papers have appeared in high-ranked peer-reviewed journals including Globalizations, Third World Quarterly, Latin American Perspectives and Critical Sociology. He also serves as a peer reviewer for international journals such as Latin American Research Review, New Political Economy, Mineral Economics, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Development and Change.

Jan lived in Peru for over twenty years, working at several universities as a professor-researcher. He is recognised as a leading social researcher in the country and is part of Peru’s National Registry of Science, Technology and Technological Innovation, level IV. He has led research groups focusing on microbusinesses, economic growth and labour conditions, and served on the Board of Directors of the Research Centre of the University Ricardo Palma. He also advised the Vice-Presidency of Research, coordinated research at the School of Administration in Global Business and taught in doctoral programmes in Global Business Administration and Political Science and International Relations. His academic interests include economic development and inequality in South America, globalisation, extractivist development models and industrialisation, peripheral state formation and global value chains.