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CONTACT DETAILS
CEPMLP
The University of Dundee
Carnegie Building
Dundee DD1 4HN
Room 1.11
Telephone: +44 (0)1382 384742
Fax: +44 (0)1382 385854
Contact Email: e.dietsche@dundee.ac.uk
Evelyn has been with the Centre as a lecturer since 2006. She teaches courses on public policy and governance in natural resource countries and mineral and petroleum taxation and holds postgraduate degrees in development economics (SOAS, UK) and public policy and management (Konstanz, Germany). She currently edits the CEPMLP Internet Journal.
Evelyn joined the Centre following several years of work experience as a development economist and policy analyst undertaking many assignments for bilateral and multilateral aid agencies, mainly on public sector and financial management reforms, fiduciary risk assessments and political economic analyses. These assignments have taken her to many resource rich countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, the West Indies and the Middle East. She has also worked for the Namibian Ministry of Finance for two years.
Since 2004 Evelyn has been involved in the Resource Endowment Initiative of the International Council and Mining and Metals (ICMM) for which she has most recently compiled a report on minerals taxation regimes. She has also convened training courses on natural resource revenue management for the Revenue Watch Institute (RWI) and the Central European University. Evelyn is a research associate of the Oxford Policy Institute and an associate of Oxford Policy Management Ltd.
Research
Evelyn is currently working towards a PhD on state capacity building in resource-rich countries. She has a theoretical interest in political economic analyses, institutional economics and other institutional approaches to public policy analysis. Her empirical work focuses on mining countries. She is currently working on a commissioned research paper for the UNRISD and a paper on resource taxation and state capacity building. She is also in contact with a group of scholars working on public sector and financial management in resource-rich countries.
Teaching
Mineral and Petroleum Taxation (On-Campus)
The main objective of the course is to provide an introduction to the main policy issues in the field of mineral and petroleum taxation and to the main instruments of taxation. The emphasis is on providing an understanding of the issues rather than teaching skills in accounting or financial analysis. These latter skills should be acquired on other courses. Neither does this course intend to make the student into a tax lawyer.
Public Policy and Governance in Natural Resource Rich Countries (On-Campus)
This module provides students with an understanding of the typical policy challenges faced by countries endowed with natural resources and a critical awareness of the proposed causal mechanisms explaining variation in outcomes across these countries. The course covers the resource curse debate, theoretical approaches to public policy analysis and the practical policy challenges of turning resource wealth into positive development outcomes.
