Marcel Timmer

Marcel Timmer is professor in Economics at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and Deputy-Director of the CPB Netherlands Bureau of Economic Policy Analysis. He has extensively published in major academic journals on a broad range of issues of economic growth, structural change, international trade, productivity and economic measurement. He helped build major socio-economic databases including the Penn World Tables, EU KLEMS productivity accounts and the World input-output tables (WIOD). He has supervised many PhD students over the years and been a consultant and advisor for various organisations including the OECD, the World Bank and Statistics Netherlands.