Frederick van der Ploeg#
| Membership Number: | 3706 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/members/rick.vanderploeg |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 - present Professor of Economics and Research Director of the Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies, University of Oxford
- 2011 - present Adjunct Professor of Economics, VU University Amsterdam
- 2003-2007 Professor of Economics, European University Institute
- 1998-2002 State Secretary of Education, Culture and Science, the Netherlands
- 1994-1998 Member of Parliament, the Netherlands
- 1991-1998 Professor of Macroeconomics, University of Amsterdam
- 1985-1991 Research Professor, University of Tilburg
- 1983-1988 Lecturer/Reader of Economics, London School of Economics
- 1979-1983 Junior Research Officer, University of Cambridge
Fields of Scholarship
- Macroeconomics
- International finance
- Public economics
- Climate economics
- Natural resource economics
- Economics of art and higher education
Honours and Awards
- 2011 - 2016 Co-Investigator, Advanced Grant for ‘Combating Climate Change: The Political Economy of Green Paradoxes’, European Research Council. With Cees Withagen
- 2010 Corresponding Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
- 2009 Member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities
- 2004 Fellow of European Economic Association
- 2003 Mr. N.G. Pierson Penning for Contributions to Economics
- 2002 Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau, Netherlands
