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Roel Beetsma

MN Professor of Pension Economics, University of Amsterdam,

Board Member, European Fiscal Board

Roel Beetsma is 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 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. His research has been widely published in such journals as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Literature and the Economic Journal.

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