Creighton Peet, PhD
University of Maragoli
Advisory Board
Creighton Peet, is Program Coordinator, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Director of the Namibia Project Center and the Hong Kong Project Center in WPI’s Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Division. Dr. Peet has been working on the problems of international development, humanitarian assistance and international education since the late 1960’s, first with the Peace Corps in Nepal and later as a professional, applied anthropologist in East, South and Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Balkans, the Caribbean, Central America, Africa and Australia. He obtained his Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University, with additional training in agriculture at Cornell University and has focused his research and project work on the issues of sustainable development. In June 2003 and 2005 he was a speaker in workshops on Water Resources Management at the Corporate Council on Africa’s US-Africa Business Summit. In June 2004, 2006 and 2007 he participated in and helped organize conferences at WPI on water management and the promotion of SMEs and other business opportunities in Africa. He continues a research interest in the sociocultural aspects of water and natural resources management.
Dr. Peet has been involved in international education since 1989. He worked for four years as Associate Dean at the School for Field Studies, for two years as Program Director for the Social Sciences at Earthwatch Institute and for the last seven years at WPI in the Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Division. He has also been a consultant on capacity building in the non-governmental sector in both Eastern Europe and many of the republics of the former Soviet Union.