Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg
Department of Economics, University of Oxford, OX1 3UQ, U.K.
Email: rick.vanderploeg@economics.ox.ac.uk,
Website: https://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/people/rick-van-der-ploeg-0
Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Oxford (2008-..).
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Macroeconomics, public economics, international economics, development, political economy.
Natural resources, climate.
EDUCATION
1977-81: Ph.D. Engineering, University of Cambridge and King’s College, Cambridge.
1974-77: B.Sc., First Class Honours, University of Sussex.
AWARDS AND HONOURS
2014: Member of the Academia Europaea.
2011-16: Co-Investigator, Advanced Grant for ‘Combating Climate Change: The Political Economy of Green Paradoxes’, European Research Council. With C. 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.
2002: Cosmic Lifetime Achievement Award for promotion of cultural diversity in the Netherlands.
MAJOR RESEARCH GRANTS
2017-19: BP plc, £7mln: Oxford Centre for Analysis of Resource Rich Economies (Research Director)
2011-2016: European Research Council, Euro 3 mln; Advanced Grant, Combating Climate Change: Political Economy of Green Paradoxes (Co-Principal Investigator)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2022-…: European IGM Experts Panel, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago.
2021-…: Research Professor, Bundesbank, Frankfurt.
2021-…: Advisory Board, Network for Sustainable Macroeconomic Policies and Research.
2020-23: Member Academic Council, Impact Economy Foundation, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (https://www.impacteconomyfoundation.org/ )
2020-…: Member Sustainable Future Policy Lab (www.sfplab.org).
2020-2023: Member Research Policy Network, Climate Change, CEPR, London.
2019-2025: Member of Research Policy Network, Preventing Conflict: Policies for Peace, CEPR, London.
2017-..: Fellow, Global Labor Organization.
1995-..: Research Fellow, CESifo, Munich.
2003-24 and 1986-98: Research Fellow, Macroeconomics and Growth programme and International Macroeconomics and Finance programme, CEPR, London.
2008-..: Research Fellow Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam-Rotterdam.
PAST APPOINTMENTS
2008-22: Research Director of the Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies.
2008-21: Senior Research Fellow, New College, Oxford.
2013-20: Adviser and Shareholder, Aurora Energy Research, Oxford.
2017-20: Director, Aurora (Trustee), Oxford
2011-20: Adjunct Professor VU University Amsterdam.
2009-19: Chair of the CES Scientific Council, University of Munich.
2003-19: Member of the CES Scientific Council, University of Munich.
2003-19: Director Public Sector Programme, CESifo, Munich.
2008-19: Associate Member, Nuffield College, Oxford.
2008-11: Faculty Associate, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford.
2003-07 and 1988: Professor of Economics, European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
2003-07: Elected Member and Chair Dutch Delegation, UNESCO World Heritage Committee and Vice Chairman of the World Heritage Convention, Vilnius.
2002-2010: Professor of Political Economy, University of Amsterdam.
1998-2002: State Secretary of Education, Culture and Sciences, The Netherlands.
1994-98: Member of Parliament (member of management team of parliamentary fraction, first spokesman general financial affairs, EMU, European budget, competition policy, small and medium enterprises, direct taxes including income, wealth, corporate and environmental taxes, and student grants/loans).
1991-98: Research Fellow, CentER, Tilburg University.
1991-98: Professor of Economics, University of Amsterdam.
1986-89: Founding Director, Dutch Ph.D. Network for Quantitative Economics (NQE).
1985-91: Research Professor of Quantitative Economics, Tilburg University.
1984-90: Senior Member Centre for Labour Economics, LSE, University of London.
1983-88: University Lecturer and Reader-Elect in Economics, LSE, University of London.
1983-84: Fellow Darwin College, Cambridge.
1979-83: Junior Research Officer, Cambridge Growth Project, Cambridge University, UK.
VISITING POSITIONS
2016-17: Visiting Professor of Complex Systems, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utrecht.
2008-12: Lecturer Natural Resources and FDI, Oxford University Business Economics Programme.
2007: Lecturer, Kiel Institute Summer School on Economic Policy, Reforming the Welfare State – Balancing Efficiency and Equity, The Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
2006: Visiting Professor, Lectures on the Political Economy of Welfare States, Maastricht Summer School in Governance and Social Protection, Maastricht Graduate School of Governance.
2006: Visitor, DG Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission, Brussels.
2003-06: Visiting Professor, Catania University.
2004: Visiting Professor, EPRU, University of Copenhagen.
2002: Visiting Professor, Schumpeter Lectures, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany.
2002: Visiting Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science, U.K.
2002: Visiting Professor, CESifo, Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität, Munich, Germany.
1993: Visiting Professor, Université Paris-1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France.
1993: Visiting Professor, Institute of Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria.
1993: Visitor, Centre for Planning and Economic Research, Athens, Greece.
1992: Visiting Lecturer on International Economics, International School of Economic Research, Siena, Italy.
1992-94: Visiting Professor of Economics, Pittsburg University at CERGE, Charles University, Prague.
1990: Visiting Professor of Economics, Princeton University, New Jersey, U.S..
1982: Research Fellow, SEO, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
RECENT TEACHING
2021-23: Macro Finance (Consumption-Based CAPM, financial frictions, credit), Core Macroeconomics, MPhil in Economics, University of Oxford.
2018-23: International Economics – Open Economy Macro/International Finance, Michaelmas Term, 3rd year UG course, University of Oxford. With Tony Venables, Ferdinand Rauch and Banu Demir Pakel.
2017-23: Macroeconomics – Normative and Political Theories of Public Debt & Growth: Solow, Endogenous, Semi-Endogenous, Directed Technical Change, and Convergence, Lent Term 2018-19, 2nd year UG course, University of Oxford.
2020-22: Economics of Sustainability and Climate Change, Guest Lectures, Oxford University Business Economics Programme (OUBEP), University of Oxford.
2020-22: Climate Change, second-year PhD course, Tinbergen Institute. With Carolyn Fischer, Thomas Douenne, Ana Varela and Sweder van Wijnbergen.
2020-23: Guest Lecture, Macro Finance and Central Banking, Tinbergen Institute. With Enrico Perotti.
2018-22: Cultural Policy, Accademia Teatro alla Scala, Milan. With Ellen Walraven.
2016-21: Grand Challenges for Sustainability – Fighting Global Warming, UG course, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
2017-19: Understanding Complexity: Economy and the Planet, MSc Complex Systems Science, Utrecht University.
2017-18: International Finance, Master Financial Economics, SAID Business School, University of Oxford.
2015-17: Spatial Economics – Economics of Climate Change, PhD course, Tinbergen Institute.
2003-07: Public Economics, PhD course, European University Institute, Florence.
2002-03: Macroeconomics, Master course, London School of Economics & Political Science, London.
PHD AND DPHIL SUPERVISION (both sole and joint)
2008-.., Oxford: Sarah Duffy (with Andrea Ferrero, ongoing), Juliette Caucheteux (with Elizabeth Baldwin, ongoing), Julian Winkler (joint with Doyne Farmer, ongoing), Adam Brzezinski (ongoing), David van Dijcke (transferred to University of Wisconsin), Mike Dawes (Vivid Economics), Thomas McGregor (IMF), Samuel Wills (World Bank), Niko Jaakkola (University of Bologna)
1988 and 2002-07, EUI, Florence: Rabah Arezki (Chief Economist African Development Bank), Zeno Enders (Professor of Economics, University of Heidelberg), Philippe Delacote (INRAE, Nancy), Steven Poelhekke (Professor of Economics, University of Auckland), Karel Mertens (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas), Joana Pereira (IMF), Aysen Isaoglu (EIB), Vilen Lipatov (Compass Lexecon), Katrin Rabitsch (Associate Professor, WU Vienna University), Juan Gonzales (UAB Barcelona), Joel van der Weele (Full Professor of Economics, CREED, University of Amsterdam), Rory O’Farrell (OECD), Graham Mott (UNCTAD), Luis Rey (Basque Centre for Climate Change), Luca Onarante (ECB), Herve Ott (European Commission)
2013-18, VU Amsterdam: Mark Kagan (Amazon), Jacob Janssen (ECN, TNO)
1991-94 and 2022-.., University of Amsterdam: Taco Prins (with Ton van den Bremer, ongoing), Faan Langelaan (with Florian Wagener and Frank Langeveld, ongoing), Yasmine van der Straten (with Enrico Perotti, ongoing), Xu Lin (with Sweder van Wijnbergen, ongoing), Jenny Ligthart (Professor of Economics, CentER, Tilburg University), Paul Tang (Member of European Parliament, Strassbourg), Ed Westerhout (CPB, UvA), Jaap Abbring (Professor of Econometrics, CentER, Tilburg), Jan-Peter Kooiman (ABN-AMRO), Matthijs Bouwman (TV and press journalist), Frank de Langen (Open University)
1985-91, Tilburg: Roel Beetsma (Dean and Professor of Macroeconomics, University of Amsterdam), Frank de Jong (Professor of Finance, CentER, Tilburg University), Eric Schaling (Professor in International Finance, University of the Witwatersrand)
1983-88, LSE: Joana Vartininen, Leonardo Villar (IMF Executive Board), Paolo Manasse (Professor of Economics, Bologna), Dominique Frecaut (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
EDITORIAL, JURY AND CONFERENCE DUTIES
Advisory Board, A Sustainable Future Platform, University of Amsterdam (2021-..).
Co-Organiser, CEPR Conference The Economics of Climate Change. With F. Caselli and A. Ludwig (March 2021).
Advisory Board, Energy Research Letters (2020-..).
Co-Organiser, Conference Mathematics of the Economy and Climate, Soesterberg (July 2019).
Co-Editor, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy (2017-..).
Co-Editor of Special Issue on Climate Economics and the Green Paradox, European Economic Review (2017). With Cees Withagen.
Co-Editor of Special Issue on The Economics of Climate Change, Environmental and Resource Economics (2017). With Gerard van der Meijden and Cees Withagen.
Assessor European Research Council 2015 Advanced Instigator and Consolidator Grants, European Commission, Brussels (2015-16).
Member Editorial Boards Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2011-..), International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics (2010-2021), Journal of Natural Resources Policy (2014 – ..), Environmental Innovations and Societal Transitions (2010-..), Environmental Economics and Policy Studies (2010-22), Oxford Economic Papers (2007-..), FinanzArchiv/Public Finance Analysis (2013-2020), Journal of Common Market Studies (2010-2017), Journal of Financial Economic Policy (2008-9), Journal of Financial Policy (2009-..), Journal of Cultural Economics (2006-..), Journal of Economics (2004-..), mejudice.nl (2008-..) and De Economist (2011-..).
Member of Committee for allocating Advanced Instigator Grants, European Research Council, European Commission, Brussels (2015-16).
Member of the Programme Committee of the Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Prague (2012) and Toulouse (2013), Istanbul (2014), Helsinki (2015), Zurich (2016) and Athens (2017).
Co-Editor of Special Issue of the Journal of International Money and Finance on the financialization of commodities (2014). With Rabah Arezki and Anthony J. Venables.
Member Scientific Council, J.W. Brouwerfonds, Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen, Haarlem (2009-2013).
Co-Editor CESifo Economic Studies (2005-11). Co-Editor Special Issues Higher Reform in Europe (2008) and Reinventing Europe (2009).
Co-Editor of Special Issue on Resource Rich Economies Oxford Economic Papers (2009).
Member Programme Committee 22nd EEA Annual Congress, Budapest, 27-31 August (2007), 23rd EEA Annual Congress, Milan, 27-31 August (2008), 24th EEA Annual Congress Barcelona, 23-27 August (2009), 25th EEA Annual Congress Glasgow, 22-26 August (2010).
Selection Panel for Lecturers and Assistant Professors, University of Cyprus (2008 and 2009).
Chairperson and Member Editorial Board NETSPAR Reference Papers on Saving, Pensions and Health Care in Ageing Societies, Tilburg University (2006-7; 2007-).
Chairperson Jury ‘The Battle of the Universities’, NRC Handelsblad, KNAW, NWO (2005-).
Member international evaluation committee of the Dutch Central Planbureau (2003).
Programme committee, Fourth Meeting of the Association for Public Economic Theory, Duke University, North Carolina, 12-15 June (2003).
Member Editorial Board New Economy, Academic Press (1993-98).
Member Juries Parool Thesis Prize (1993) and Audax Columnist Prize (1996).
Member Editorial Board NEXUS, Academic Journal for Culture, Philosophy and Science (1991‑98).
Associate Editor Computer Science in Economics and Management (1987‑92), Computational Economics (1992-98).
Member Panel Economic Policy – A European Forum (1993-95).
Member Advisory Council, Amsterdam University Press (1992-95).
Managing Editor (1990‑94) and Member Editorial Board (1989-90) European Journal of Political Economy.
Member ECOZOEK‑committee general economics, Dutch Foundation for Scientific Research (1989‑93).
Member Faculty Profile and Restructuring of Departments Committee (1992-93) and Committee for the Medium-Term Direction of the University of Amsterdam (1993).
Editor Economica (1986-88).
MEDIA ACTIVITIES
Newspaper columnist De Volkskrant (1989‑90), Elsevier‑Carriere (1990‑91), De Krant op Zondag (1991-92), Algemeen Dagblad (1996-98), Het Financieele Dagblad (2003-07), and De Telegraaf, (2012-2021, with Willem Vermeend).
Contributor of syndicated columns to Project Syndicate (2005-..).
Presenter of the Annual National Science Quiz, VPRO television and NWO (2005).
Presenter and producer, international television co-production “The Global Economy”, TELEAC Broadcasting Corporation (1992-95).
CONSULTANCY AND COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES
Consultant to WIDER, Helsinki on policy for resource-rich economies after the crash in commodity prices (2016).
Consultant on the management of resource-rich Caribbean economies, The World Bank, Washington, D.C. (2015-16).
Consultant on the Heritage Fund for Alberta, The School of Public Policy, Alberta (2014). With T.S. van den Bremer.
Member of the Committee Balanced Budget Rule, Prime Minister’s Office, Aruba (2013).
Consultant on fiscal and macro aspects of natural resource revenue management, International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C. (2012-13). With A.J. Venables.
Consultant on Harnessing oil revenues in Ghana, the International Growth Centre, London (2011). With A.J. Venables and S. Wills.
Consultant on oil management and the Iraq economy, the World Bank, Washington, D.C. (2011-12). With A.J. Venables and S. Wills.
Consultant on Managing Resource Revenues in the CAREC region and on Regional and Monetary Integration in the CAREC Region, Asian Development Bank, Manilla (2008-9). With K. Kuralbayeva and A.J. Venables.
Consultant on Prudent Budgetary Policy, Swedish Fiscal Policy Council, Stockholm (2007-8).
Consultant on Africa and Natural Resources, African Development Bank, Tunis (2007).
Consultant on public investment and debt, European Commission, Brussels (2006).
Adviser Hoogstad Architects, Rotterdam (2004-6).
Consultant `Fiscal Policies and Government Debt’, OECD, Paris (1993).
Member Government Committee Positioning of Care by General Practioners, Medical Specialists and Hospitals (1993-94).
Member Labour Party Commission Future of the Welfare State (1991-92), Contributor Labour Party Election Manifestos (1994, 1998, 2002).
Consultant environmental policy in agriculture, VROM (Ministry of Housing, Urban Planning and the Environment) (1990‑91).
Back‑up Consultant Improvement of National Account Statistics and Economic Planning for Pakistan, Institute of Development Studies, Tilburg, Netherlands (1989‑93).
Advisor macroeconomic and monetary policy coordination in Europe, Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR), The Hague, Netherlands (1988‑89) and Commission of the European Communities (1989-90).
Consultant optimal economic policy formulation to Her Majesty’s Treasury and the Mexican government (SEPAFIN) and national accounts to the Mexican government (SEPAFIN) and NEDO (1981-82).
BOARD DUTIES
Member of the Board of Trustees, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Munich (2010-2021).
Member of the Scientific Board/Policy Board of EU 7th Framework project “Welfare, Wealth and Work for Europe” (2012-16).
Advisory Board, Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, Berlin (2010-..).
Member Supervisory Board, Gerrit Rietveld Academy for Visual Arts and Design, Amsterdam (2010- 2015).
Chairman Foundation Arnold Heertje Library, antiquarian library for moral philosophy (2004-..).
Chairman Board of De Appel, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Amsterdam (2003-2010).
Member Board DenUyllezing, Netherlands (2006-..).
Member Advisory Council Alfa-beta-gamma Programme of Lorentz Institute/NIAS, Leiden and Wassenaar (2006-..).
Member Board Mr. N.G. Pierson Foundation, Amsterdam (2006-2022).
Member Advisory Council, Houses of Art – Amsterdam, Marbella and Moscow (2005-2007).
Director European Forum ‘Growth Agenda for Europe’, Robert Schuman Centre, EUI, Florence (2005-2006).
Chairman of Child in Motion: education underprivileged and abused children in Asia (2004-2008).
Member Founding Board European Santa Fé Institute, Doesburg (2004-..).
Member Scientific Committee, CRISS, Universities of Sienna, Rome “La Sapienza” and Bocconi-Milan (2003-..).
Member Scientific Council, CentER, Tilburg University, Netherlands (2003-2023).
Chairman NTU, Dutch Language Union (2002).
Advisory board economics research institute (SOM), University of Groningen (2002-..).
Chairman Infodrome, ICT thinktank of the Dutch government (1999-2002).
Member Advisory Council, Foundation for Economic Research, University of Amsterdam (1996-98).
Member Board Stichting Beleggingsinstellingen and member Advisory Committee Investment Fund, Algemene Spaarbank Nederland (1994-1998).
Member Council European Economic Association (1994-98).
Member Supervisory Board Directors of Koninklijke Pakhoed N.V., Rotterdam (1996-98).
Member of the Board Academic Advisers, International Center for Economic Growth (1995-98).
Member Advisory Scientific Committee, EPRU, Copenhagen Business School (1992-98).
Member Board theatre group Mug Met de Gouden Tand (1995-98).
Member Presidium of Mandaat, Atlantic Association of Young Political Leaders (1994-96).
Board of Directors, Tinbergen Institute (1992-94).
Member General Executive Dutch Parliamentary Labour Party (1992-94).
Advisory Board, Russian Management Foundation (1992).
Curator Wiardi Beckman Foundation (1991-98).
Board of Directors, CentER, Tilburg University, The Netherlands (1988-91).
Member Board Cambridge Econometrics Ltd. (1980‑91).
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