Ute Rietdorf is an African studies’ specialist trained in development economics with minors in anthropology and business management. She received her PhD from the University of Leipzig in 2002 for a dissertation about the role of the Asianminority in development processes in Tanzania. After that, she worked for the postgraduate programme ‘Small Enterprise Promotion and Training’ (SEPT) at the University of Leipzig; the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg; and the Centre for Area Studies (CAS), University of Leipzig. During those times, she has been teaching development economics, research methodology, knowledge management, and different topics related to the workings of African economies and societies. She’s currently working as a Senior Researcher and Coordinator at the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 1199 “Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition” at the University of Leipzig. Her research interests include development theory, sustainable and rural development, and imaginations of development facilitated by ICT.
