John Bryden
John Bryden is Emeritus Professor at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland and lately part-time Professor in the ‘grounded and inclusive innovation’ research group at the Norwegian Agricultural Economics Research Institute (NILF) and NIBIO in Oslo. He is currently affiliated senior scientist with Nordregio, Sweden.
John is a recognised expert on rural policy who has worked in UK, Norway, US, Canada, Chile, the Caribbean, Africa and India, as well as for short periods in many other countries. He was Ministerial advisor on land reform and rural policy, and secretary of a cross-party group on rural policy in Scotland between 1996 and 1999. He was a founder of the International Comparative Rural Policy Summer Institute (ICRPS). He was European director of the joint EU-North America exchange programme on Rural Policy in the 1980’s funded by the Ford Foundation, USDA, The Donner Canada Foundation and the Arkleton Trust. He has coordinated four major transnational research programmes on economic and social dynamics in rural regions. He has been an expert advisor to the OECD on rural services, service to industry, rural policies, rural innovation, for the preparation of the New Rural Paradigm (2006) and an expert on the OECD project on Linking Renewable Energy to Rural Development Project (2010-12), and also worked for the UNEP REN-21 Policy Network on a Renewable Energy update in the North Africa and Middle East region in 2012-13. He recently completed a book with colleagues from Scotland, England, Finland and Norway on Northern Neighbours: Scotland and Norway since 1800, published by Edinburgh University Press in March 2015. He was also lead editor and contributor to the Special Issue of the international journal “Innovation and Development” dealing with grounded innovation in the bioeconomy, published in 2017. John studied Political Economy (University of Glasgow), Tropical Agricultural Economics (University of the West Indies), and Development Economics (University of East Anglia). He has been visiting scholar at Guelph University Canada, University of Missouri-Columbia USA, Cornell University, USA, the Centre for Rural Development, Tokyo, the Centre for Development Studies in Kerala, India, and the University of Pretoria, South Africa. John was also Programme Director of the Arkleton Trust from 1981 to 2006. He has been a keynote speaker or panellist at the major EU rural policy conferences including Inverness (1991), Cork (1996), and Salzburg (2003), as well as many OECD territorial rural policy conferences, and other conferences in Europe, Canada, USA, South America, India, Japan, Russia and Australia. John has published widely in several languages. He currently lives in Denmark.
John is a recognised expert on rural policy who has worked in UK, Norway, US, Canada, Chile, the Caribbean, Africa and India, as well as for short periods in many other countries. He was Ministerial advisor on land reform and rural policy, and secretary of a cross-party group on rural policy in Scotland between 1996 and 1999. He was a founder of the International Comparative Rural Policy Summer Institute (ICRPS). He was European director of the joint EU-North America exchange programme on Rural Policy in the 1980’s funded by the Ford Foundation, USDA, The Donner Canada Foundation and the Arkleton Trust. He has coordinated four major transnational research programmes on economic and social dynamics in rural regions. He has been an expert advisor to the OECD on rural services, service to industry, rural policies, rural innovation, for the preparation of the New Rural Paradigm (2006) and an expert on the OECD project on Linking Renewable Energy to Rural Development Project (2010-12), and also worked for the UNEP REN-21 Policy Network on a Renewable Energy update in the North Africa and Middle East region in 2012-13. He recently completed a book with colleagues from Scotland, England, Finland and Norway on Northern Neighbours: Scotland and Norway since 1800, published by Edinburgh University Press in March 2015. He was also lead editor and contributor to the Special Issue of the international journal “Innovation and Development” dealing with grounded innovation in the bioeconomy, published in 2017. John studied Political Economy (University of Glasgow), Tropical Agricultural Economics (University of the West Indies), and Development Economics (University of East Anglia). He has been visiting scholar at Guelph University Canada, University of Missouri-Columbia USA, Cornell University, USA, the Centre for Rural Development, Tokyo, the Centre for Development Studies in Kerala, India, and the University of Pretoria, South Africa. John was also Programme Director of the Arkleton Trust from 1981 to 2006. He has been a keynote speaker or panellist at the major EU rural policy conferences including Inverness (1991), Cork (1996), and Salzburg (2003), as well as many OECD territorial rural policy conferences, and other conferences in Europe, Canada, USA, South America, India, Japan, Russia and Australia. John has published widely in several languages. He currently lives in Denmark.
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