Bio
Arntraud Hartmann is Steven Muller Professor at SAIS Europe
Arntraud Hartmann is a Panel Member of the Independent Accountability Mechanism (IAM) of the German, French and Dutch Development Banks (DEG, PROPARCO and FMO). She was formerly a member of the Independent Accountability Panels of the Asian and African Development Banks. These mechanisms investigate complaints from people harmed by development projects funded by the respective Development Finance Institution. She regularly heads reviews of IAMs of different multilateral institutions. Hartmann spent 23 years of her professional career with the World Bank, which she joined in 1981 as a Young Professional. Between 1981 and 2004 she held numerous positions at the World Bank, including ten years in Senior Management Positions, such as Director for Southeast European Countries and Advisor to the Managing Director. She also established and headed the first World Bank Office in Romania (1991-1996) established after the Romanian revolution. Hartmann also worked with the IFAD Quality Assurance Department, was a Research Fellow with the UNICEF Innocenti Center (1996-97) and was Senior Advisor to the World Commission on the Social Dimensions of Globalization (2002-2004).
Since 1997, Hartmann has taught courses in development policy and development economics at SAIS Europe. She obtained the Excellence of Teaching Award in 2014, 2019 and 2020. She also was Visiting Professor at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Germany.
Hartmann holds degrees in laws and economics from Hamburg University and American University, Washington, DC, as well as diplomas in development policy and finance from the German Development Institute, Johns Hopkins University and Harvard University.
Courses
- International Development Proseminar
Development is a complex, multifaceted phenomenon that must be studied from a number of disciplinary approaches. Much of development theory focuses on economic growth, and students will have the opportunity to learn about the economic aspects of development in other classes. Economic growth is necessary to development, but not sufficient. Societies also change politically and socially, and politics, culture, and social structure are important in determining the quality of their institutions and the opportunities they offer their citizens. This course provides a general interdisciplinary foundation for the study of international development that includes history, theory, analytical tools, and institutions, and that will enable all students to be better prepared to analyze and address current issues. This course must be taken by all students concentrating in International Development during their first semester at SAIS, either in Washington or Bologna. (IDEV)
- Rural Development, Gender and Social Inclusion
The course will assess key characteristics of the rural population, it will provide students the tools to analyze the rural space, the rural population and the particular development challenges in the rural sector. A particular focus of the course will be to enable students to conduct a poverty and income inequality assessment, providing them the technical tools and guidance to conduct such an assessment. The course will furthermore focus on the agricultural sector as the large majority of the rural population derives at least part of their income from working in the agricultural sector. The course will assess the transformation processes underway in the agricultural sector through the value chain approach and will assess the impacts of this value chain approach on women and the poor. Students will also be made familiar with the particular challenges of access to resources, such as land and finance. While the course is not exclusively focused on rural gender issues, the course will focus prominently on the particular role of women in the rural space and rural development. Some attention will also be given to the challenges posed by a very rapidly growing rural youth.