Christian von Lübke Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut, Windausstr. 16, 79110 Freiburg Tel: +49 (0)761 88878-29, Fax: +49 (0)761 88878-78 Email: christian.von.luebke@politik.uni-freiburg.de / cvl@gmx.com EDUCATION PhD, Political Science, Australian National University, top 10 % ( equivalent: summa cum laude), 10/2008 M.A., Economics, Muenster University, third best exam (Diplom Volkswirt - Prädikatsexamen), 07/2000 Japanese Studies Program, International Christian University, Tokyo, GPA: 3.88, 1997 B.A., Business, Political Science and Sociology, Muenster University, 06/1996 ACADEMIC POSITIONS Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut (Apr2013- ) Senior Research & Evaluation Fellow Freiburg University (Oct 2011- ) Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of International Politics Stanford University (July 2009 Sep 2011) DFG Postdoctoral Fellow, Asia-Pacific Research Center, FSI Stanford Stanford University (September 2008 July 2009) Shorenstein Fellow, Asia-Pacific Research Center, FSI Stanford Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan (October 2007 April 2008) Research Fellow, Institute for Global Political Economy Center for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta, Indonesia (April 2005 January 2006) Research Associate, Economics and Political Science Division Australian National University (April 2004 August 2007) Teaching and Research Assistant, Crawford School of Economics and Government Muenster University (November 1997 February 2000) Research Assistant, Institute of International Economics, Prof. G. Dieckheuer EMPLOYMENT & CONSULTANCY WORK German Development Cooperation (GIZ), Program Progress Evaluation / PFK (May June 2013) Consultant Commissioned program progress report: Governance Programme Pakistan Leading international consultant, Administrative Reform in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Field Interviews, Focus Group Discussions, and Partner Workshops in Peshawar and Islamabad UK Department for International Development & IDS (June 2007 June 2008) Consultant Commissioned research: Business Climates and Economic Development in Indonesia Team member, Global Assessment of Public Action and Private Investment, Field Surveys in Sulawesi and Java The World Bank Rural Investment Climate Program, Indonesia ( April 2005 June 2006) Consultant Commissioned research: Political Economy of Rural Investment Climates Field Surveys in Sumatra, Java, Bali and West Nusa Tenggara Co-facilitator of national/international conferences
German Development Cooperation (GIZ), Eastern Indonesia (June 2001 June 2004) Consultant Advisor for local economic development in Eastern Indonesia Organizer of a Participatory Appraisal of Competitive Advantage (PACA) in Java and West Nusa Tenggara, involving 600 local stakeholders Facilitator of Public-Private Action Forums / Economic Development Analyses The Development Gap, Washington DC, USA (Oct Dec 1998) Research Assistant Performance of German and Japanese development cooperation Interviews with World Bank/ JICA/ JBIC officials on aid effectiveness German Embassy, Tokyo, Japan (Sep 1998) Trainee Economic, Political, Culture, Public Relations Secretariats Reports on International Economic Cooperation (OECD,UN and EU) AWARDS & RESEARCH FUNDING Stanford Center for International Development (SCID) Research Award, 2010-2011 German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) Fellowship, Winter 2010 German Research Society Fellowship (DFG Forschungsstipendium), 2009-2012 Walter H. Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stanford University, 2008-2009 JSPS Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2008 GLOPE Research Scholarship, Waseda University, 2007 Crawford Prize Nominee (for Best Dissertation), Australian National University, 2008 PhD Scholarship, Australian National University, 2004-2007 Prädikatsexamen, Muenster University/Economics Faculty, (third best exam of the year), 2000 Schneider Foundation Scholarship, Muenster University, 1996-1998 Best Japanese Speech, Japanese Consulate, North Rhine-Westphalia, 1998 Foreign Exchange Program Scholarship, Japan Ministry of Education and Science, 1996-1997 LANGUAGE SKILLS English Indonesian Japanese German Basic skills Fluent - writing and speaking (Toefl Score 293/300; ten years in US, UK, Australia) Fluent - writing and speaking (four years of field experience in various parts of Indonesia) Fluency in spoken language (one-year intensive language training, two years in Japan) Mother tongue in Spanish, French, Malay, and Latin TECHNICAL SKILLS Computer Consulting STATA, SPSS, AMOS, NVivo, Dreamweaver Mind Mapping, Meta-Plan, CEFE, PACA
TEACHING Freiburg University, Department for International Politics, Freiburg, Germany Senior Lecturer International Political Economy, Winter 2012/13 Emerging Powers in International Politics, Summer 2012 The Political Economy of Institutional Change: New Democracies in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, Summer 2012 Democracy and Development, Winter 2011/12 Stanford University, Department for Political Science/Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford, USA Lecturer The Politics of Reform in Contemporary Southeast Asia Spring 2011 Graduate seminar on the political economy of democratic governance, corruption, and policy reform in Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines and Malaysia. Oxford Analytica, Christ Church College, Oxford, UK Lecturer Seminar-Series Southeast Asia: Recent Political and Economic Developments, September 16-18, 2009 and September 15-17, 2010. Crawford School of Economics and Government, The Australian National University Head Teaching Assistant Issues in Economic, Political and Environmental Development, Fall 2004. Five tutorials per week (80 international graduate students) Grading of research and exam papers. German Development Agency (GIZ) and The World Bank, Indonesia Over 40 seminars, workshops, and presentations on issues of (1) public governance, (2) local business climates, (3) economic development, (4) anti-corruption, (5) and public-private partnerships, 2001-2006. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Manuscript reviewer Comparative Politics, World Development, Critical Asian Studies, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, International Development Planning Review, Institute for Southeast Asian Studies. Panel organizer Indonesia s Decentralization Experience (AAS, Chicago, 2009) Comparative Subnational Politics and Political Economy in Asia (APSA, Toronto 2009) The Future of (Liberal) Democracy: An Asian Perspective (ECPR, Reykjavik 2011) Conference co-organizer Symposium Oeconomicum (Mobility without Borders Change and Continuity in Germany s Economy), university conference with 500 participants, Muenster University, 1995-1996. Rural Investment Climate Assessment, World Bank Office Indonesia, 100 Participants, April 2005. Conference participant International Political Science Association: 2012 European Consortium for Political Research: 2009, 2011 American Political Science Association: 2009 (2012, cancelled) Association of Asian Studies: 2009, 2011 German Association of Asian Studies: 2013 Oxford Analytica: 2009, 2010
PUBLICATIONS Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Sections: von Luebke, C. 2012, Striking the Right Balance: Economic Concentration and Local Government Performance in Indonesia and the Philippines, European Journal of East Asian Studies, 11(1):17-44. von Luebke, C. 2012, A Tale of Two Cities: The Political Economy of Local Investment Climates in Indonesia, Journal of Development Studies, 18(7):799-816 (together with Neil McCulloch and Arianto Patunru). von Luebke, C. 2011, The True State of Inequality, Inside Indonesia, Vol. 97, April 2011. von Luebke, C. 2010, 'The Politics of Reform: Political Scandals, Elite Resistance, and Presidential Leadership in Indonesia, Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 29 (1): 79-94. von Luebke, C. 2010, 'Survey of Recent Developments, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 46 (1): 7-28, (together with Arianto Patunru). von Luebke, C. 2009, Heterodox Reform Symbioses: The Political Economy of Investment Climate Reforms in Solo, Indonesia, Asian Economic Journal, 23(3): 269 96 (together with Neil McCulloch and Arianto Patunru). von Luebke, C. 2009, 'The Political Economy of Local Governance: Findings from an Indonesian Field Study', Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 45(2):201-30. von Luebke, C. 2009, Leadership and Voice in Local Governance, in N. McCulloch (ed.), Rural Investment Climate in Indonesia, ISEAS Press, Singapore: 246-300. Monographs: Agents of Change The Political Economy of Good Government in Democratic Indonesia, (to be submitted for publication in July/August 2013). von Luebke, C.2011, Paradox Refomasi di Indonesia: Kasus Century dan KPK, Online Publication (in Indonesian), Solidaritas Masyarakat Indonesia untuk Keadilan, Jakarta. PhD Thesis: von Luebke, C. 2008, Local Leadership in Transition: Explaining Variation in Indonesian Subnational Government, Australian National University, Canberra. Working Papers, Commentary, and Commissioned Analyses: Prospects of Indonesia s Anti-Corruption Drive, Global Strategic Analyses, Oxford Analytica, October 2012. Dynamic Growth and Regional Disparities in Indonesia, Global Strategic Analyses, Oxford Analytica, January 2011. Democracy in Progress or Oligarchy in Disguise? The Politics of Decentralized Governance in Post- Suharto Indonesia, Discussion Paper Series No.15, Department of International Economic Policy, University of Freiburg.
Controlled Multimethod Policy Analyses (COMPAS): A Comparative Study of Democratic Governance in Contemporary Indonesia, Occasional Paper Series No. 3, Department of International Politics, University of Freiburg. von Luebke, C. 2009, A Tale of Two Cities: The Political Economy of Local Investment Climate in Solo and Manado, Indonesia, IDS Working Paper 338, Institute for Development Studies, Brighton,UK (together with Neil McCulloch and Arianto Patunru). von Luebke, C. 2009, Indonesian Graft Controversy Signals Challenges Ahead, Global Strategic Analyses, Oxford Analytica, November 2, 2009. von Luebke, C. 2009, Post-Suharto Indonesia: Democratic Consolidation and Continuing Challenges, Stanford SPICE Digest, Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education, 3/2009 (Fall):1-3. von Luebke, C. 2009, Elites in Transition Decentralization and Neopatrimonialism in Post-Suharto Indonesia, paper presented at the 2009 ECPR Conference, Potsdam, September 12, 2009. von Luebke, C. 2009, Striking the Right Balance Economic Concentration and Governance Performance in Indonesia and the Philippines paper presented at the 2009 APSA Conference, Toronto, September 5, 2009. von Luebke, C. 2009, To Squeeze or not to Squeeze: An Assessment of the Indonesian Investment Climate, LPEM Working Paper 17, University of Indonesia (together with Neil McCulloch and Arianto Patunru). von Luebke, C. 2008, Democracy and Decentralization in Indonesia: Ten Years after Suharto, Asia-Pacific Research Center Dispatch, Stanford University, December 2008. von Luebke, C. 2007, Political Economy of Local Investment Climates: A Review of the Literature, Private Action and Public Investment Programme, Institute for Developing Studies, Brighton UK. von Luebke, C. 2005. Local Governance and Business Climates in Indonesia: District-Level Findings from West Sumatera and Central Java, World Bank Working Paper, Jakarta. von Luebke, C. 2004. Challenges of Competitiveness - Experiences of the First Indonesian Participatory Assessment of Competitive Advantages in Central Java and West Nusa Tenggara, GTZ Governance Series, Jakarta (together with Peter Reger). von Luebke, C, 2002. 'Pengembangan Ekonomi Lokal di Bima NTB, (Local Economic Development in Bima, West Nusa Tenggara), GTZ Working Paper, Denpasar (together with Hasyim Asari). von Luebke, C. 2000. 'The Political Economy of Japanese Official Development Assistance in Southeast Asia - An Assessment with Special Reference to Indonesia, Department of International Economics, Muenster University, Muenster (in German). Invited Talks and Conference Presentations The Mesopolitics of Democratic Governance, Political Science Department (Southeast Asia Seminar Series), Freiburg University,17. Dec 2010. Measuring Public Performance: A Mixed Methods Assessment of Democratic Change in Indonesia, International Economic Research Colloquium, Freiburg University, December 14, 2010.
Gauging Governance the Political Economy of Policy Reform in Democratic Indonesia, Graduate Research Seminar, IRPS, University of California, San Diego, February 14, 2010. Indonesia s J-Curve: Decentralization and Governance Drivers in the Post-Suharto Era, Institute of Economic and Social Research (LPEM), University of Indonesia, Jakarta, January 25, 2010. Elites in Transition Decentralization and Neopatrimonialism in Post-Suharto Indonesia, 2009 European Consortium for Political Research Conference, Potsdam, September 12, 2009. Striking the Right Balance Economic Concentration and Governance Performance in Indonesia and the Philippines 2009 American Political Science Association Conference, Toronto, Sep 5, 2009 (Panel Organizer). Leadership in Transition: Pathways to Good Governance in Post-Suharto Indonesia, Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University, 22 April 2009. The Political Economy of Local Governance: Findings from an Indonesian Field Study, 2009 Association of Asian Studies Conference, Chicago, 28 March 2009 (Panel Organizer). Heterodox Reform Symbioses: The Political Economy of Rural Investment Climate Policies in Solo, Indonesia, together with A. Patunru, Institute for Development Studies, Brighton UK, 24 June 2008. Leadership in Transition An Indonesian Perspective on the Governance Debate, Institute for Global Political Economy (GLOPE), Waseda University, Tokyo, 24 January 2008. Rural Investment Climates and Economic Development in Indonesia, together with N. McCulloch and A. Patunru, Institute for Development Studies, Brighton UK, 28 June 2007. The Role of Voice and Leadership in Effective Local Governance: Theory and Evidence from Decentralization in Indonesia, Center of Global Development, Washington DC, September 11 2006. The Political Economy of Local Business Climates in Rural Indonesia, International Conference on Indonesia s Rural Investment Climate, The World Bank, Jakarta, 27 June 2006. References (1) Prof. Jürgen Rüland Seminar für wissenschaftliche Politik, Freiburg University Telephone: +49 761 203 3465 Email: juergen.rueland@politik.uni-freiburg.de (2) Prof. Peter C. Timmer Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Development Studies, Emeritus, Harvard University, Telephone: +1 650 723 8060 Email: ptimmer63@gmail.com (3) Prof. Donald K. Emmerson Director, Southeast Asia Forum, Stanford University Telephone: +1 650 724 6403 Email: emmerson@stanford.edu (4) Prof. Andrew Macintyre Dean, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University Telephone: +61 2 6125 4765 Email: andrew.macintyre@anu.edu.au (5) Sir Tim Lankester President, Emeritus, Corpus Christi College, Oxford University Telephone: +44 18 6527 6700 Email: tim.lankester@ccc.ox.ac.uk