Contributions to Fondad publications

2006 Global Imbalances and the US Debt Problem: Should Developing Countries Support the US Dollar?

2005 Africa in the World Economy: The National, Regional and International Challenges

2005 Protecting the Poor: Global Financial Institutions and the Vulnerability of Low- Income Countries

2005 Helping the Poor? The IMF and Low- Income Countries

2004 Diversity in Development: Reconsidering the Washington Consensus

2004 HIPC Debt Relief: Myths and Reality

2003 The Crisis that Was Not Prevented: Lessons for Argentina, the IMF, and Globalisation

1998 The Policy Challenges of Global Financial Integration

1998 Regional Integration and Multilateral Cooperation in the Global Economy

1996 Regionalism and the Global Economy: The Case of Africa

Back Network

Jan Joost Teunissen (1948) is the founder and director of the Forum on Debt and Development (FONDAD). He started his career in 1973 as a social scientist and freelance journalist in Chile. Seeing his plan to work in Chile's agrarian reform and rural development aborted by the coup d'état of 11 September 1973, he engaged himself in activities aimed at the return of democracy in Chile. He focused on economic boycott as a political instrument to bring about regime change in Chile and other dictatorships.

In his work on international economic and political issues, he forged links with academics, politicians, journalists and high-level policymakers in various parts of the world. In the Netherlands he stimulated discussions on the origins and solutions to the international debt crisis that emerged in 1982. Supported by economists like Robert Triffin, Jan Tinbergen, Johannes Witteveen and Jan Pronk, he established FONDAD in 1987.

He has authored and co-authored books and articles on a wide range of issues including international economics and development. He is married to writer and painter Aafke Steenhuis and they have two adult kids.