Marcel Timmer is deputy-director of the CPB Netherlands Bureau of Economic Policy Analysis since 2019 and professor at the University of Groningen.
Marcel has worked on a broad range of issues of economic growth, structural change, international trade, productivity and economic measurement. He extensively published in major academic journals, typically based on joyful cooperative work with many colleagues. He has led large-scale international research programs and was a former director of the Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC). He has supervised more than a dozen PhD students over the years and been a consultant and advisor for various organizations including the OECD, the World Bank, Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Japanese Ministry of Economics, Trade and Industry (METI), Asian Development Bank and Statistics Netherlands.