Roel Beetsma

Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Amsterdam and Professor of Macroeconomics. He is also Visiting Professor at Copenhagen Business School and Research Fellow of the CEPR and CESifo. He was a Member of the European Fiscal Board, the Supervisory Board of ASR Vermogensbeheer and the Supervisory Board of the pension fund for the Dutch retail sector. He has held visiting positions at DELTA (Paris), the University of British Columbia (Vancouver), the University of California in Berkeley and the EUI Florence. He has been a consultant for the ECB, the European Commission, the European Parliament and the IMF. He was the Chair of a Dutch government commission on the European economy and member of a Dutch government commission on second-pillar pensions. He is a member of several advisory and supervisory boards within his field of expertise and related to his role as Dean. His research has been widely published in such journals as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Literature and the Economic Journal.