Jakob de Haan
is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Currently, he is the President of SUERF. Jakob has been Head of Research of De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) between 2009-2020. Before joining DNB, he has been Scientific Director of SOM, the graduate school and research institute of the faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Groningen, for eleven years. Jakob graduated at the University of Groningen, where he also received his Ph.D. He has published extensively on issues like fiscal policy, public debt, monetary policy, central bank independence and transparency, exchange rates, banking, financial sector supervision, income inequality, political and economic freedom and European integration.
Jakob is in the top 5 percent of the worldwide ranking of economists. He is member of the editorial board of Public Choice, European Union Politics, the Journal of International Money and Finance, and the Journal of Common Market Studies. Jakob is also research fellow of CESifo. He has been President of the European Public Choice Society and editor of the European Journal of Political Economy. He has done research for several organizations, including the OECD, the European Commission, the Inter-American Development Bank and the Central Bank of Aruba. Currently, he is also advisor to the European Parliament on financial stability issues.