Marcel Timmer

Marcel Timmer is deputy-director of the CPB Netherlands Bureau of Economic Policy Analysis and professor at the University of Groningen.

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).