Meine Pieter van Dijk is an economist and professor of Water Services Management at UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education and working one day per week as professor of Urban Management in Emerging Economies at the Economic Faculty of the Erasmus University.
He is member of the research school CERES and the European Institute for Comparative Urban Research (Euricur). He worked on and in developing countries since 1973, in particular on the role of small enterprises in urban development, on water and sanitation and on urban finance issues.
Van Dijk worked as a consultant for NGOs, the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, different bilateral donors and UN agencies.