Tom van Veen (emeritus)

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Job title Professor
Tom van Veen

Biography

Prof. dr. Tom van Veen is Emeritus Professor of Economics at Nyenrode Business Universiteit. His research interest is in European Economic Policy, in particular in fiscal policy, monetary policy and labour market policies.

Van Veen was responsible for the economics program in the Bsc in Accountancy and he teaches Managerial Economics in the Master in Management program. In addition, he has started research projects on the economic impact of international education. In 2011, Tom van Veen became fellow of the CESifo network. 

Van Veen studied economics in Rotterdam and Groningen and received his PhD from Maastricht University on a thesis on Wage Bargaining. In September 1983, he started to work at the School of Business and Economics of Maastricht as assistant professor in Economics. In 1999 he was appointed Associate professor and in January 2011 he was appointed as professor in economics, in particular in the economics of international education.

This position implies being the Dean of Internationalization of Education of Maastricht University. He is responsible for international cooperation initiatives and international recruitment policy at the University level. In addition he is the scientific director of the Maastricht University Summer School and scientific director of the Maastricht India initiative (including the MERC office in Bangalore, and the India country team).

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