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Rodolphe De Koninck, Chair holder

From 1970 to 2002, Rodolphe De Koninck was attached to Université Laval's geography department (Quebec, Canada). Professor De Koninck holds a License ès Lettres from the Université de Bordeaux (1965), a Master of Arts from Université Laval (1967), and a PhD from Singapore University (1970).

He has so far authored or co-authored 20 books, directed some 20 others and published nearly 200 refereed articles which have appeared in more than 30 journals, in twelve countries and in five languages. Most of his books concern Southeast Asia. This is the case of Agricultural Modernization, Poverty and Inequality (1980, co-authored with D.S. Gibbons and I. Hasan, London, Gower), Malay Peasants Coping with the World (1992, Singapore, ISEAS), Deforestation in Viet Nam (1999, Ottawa, IDRC), Singapour, la cité-État ambitieuse (2006, Paris, Belin), Malaysia, la dualité territoriale (2007, Paris, Belin), Singapore, an Atlas of perpetual territorial transformation (2008, co-authored with Julie Drolet and Marc Girard, Singapore, NUS Press).

In 1994, his L'Asie du Sud-Est was published by Masson in Paris, a revised edition being released in 2005 by Armand Colin, also in Paris. Le Monde à la Carte, first published in 1990 (Quebec, Presses Inter Universitaires), went through six editions, the latest in 2005. This publication accompanied a television course, bearing the same name, made up of thirteen one-hour lessons. The series was aired regularly from 1990 to 2006, on two national channels, as well as worldwide, on TV5 International, Paris. In total, it was broadcasted over 60 times.

Professor De Koninck has been a visiting professor at the Université de Montréal in 1975, at the International University of Shanghai in 1983, at the Université de Genève and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris (in 1987 and 1988, respectively), at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1997. He has also acted as visiting research fellow at the Universiti Sains in Penang, Malaysia, at the Universitas Sjiah Kuala in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore and also at the Centre d'Études de Géographie Tropicale de Bordeaux and, finally, at NUS.

He was editor of the Cahiers de géographie du Québec from 1982 to 1990. In 1990, he was elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. The same year, he was awarded by the Canada Council a two-year Killam fellowship. From 1995 to 1999, he was president of the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies. He received the Jacques Rousseau prize from the ACFAS (interdisciplinarity) in 1998, and the Innis-Gérin medal (social sciences) from the Royal Society of Canada in 1999.

He came to the Université de Montréal as Chair holder of the Canada Chair of Asian Research in July 2002.