Tinbergen Institute

Tinbergen Institute is the graduate school and research institute in economics and business, jointly operated by the schools of economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), the University of Amsterdam (UvA), and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). The institute governs two research master’s programs: the Research Master in Economics and the Research Master Business Data Science.

Members of the Supervisory Board

Professor R.M.W.J. Beetsma, Dean Amsterdam School of Economics and Business, University of Amsterdam
Professor P.J.F. Groenen, Dean Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Professor A. van Witteloostuijn, Dean School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Members of the Advisory Board

Professor B. Bronnenberg (Professor of Marketing at Tilburg University)
Professor M. Timmer (VICI Laureate, University of Groningen and CPB Netherlands)
Professor J. Haskel (Imperial College and Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee)
Professor G. Imbens (Stanford University)
Professor Anja Lambrecht (London Business School) 

Board 

The Board supervises the day-to-day business and has one member: Professor B. van der Klaauw. 

Director of Graduate Studies

Professor F. Sotgiu. is the Director of Graduate Studies of the Research Master in Economics and Research Master Business Data Science.

Scientific Committee for the Business Data Science program

The Scientific Committee is comprised of experts in the fields of Business Data Science of the three participating faculties. Members are: Eric Bartelsman, Chair (VU), Dennis Fok (EUR), Gui Liberali (EUR), André Lucas (VU), Dick den Hertog (UvA), Edo Roos-Lindgreen (UvA).

Admission Board for the Business Data Science program

The Admission Board is in charge of student admissions and the allocation of scholarships. 
Contact the Admission Board 

Educational Board

The Educational Board serves the Tinbergen Institute and the Business Data Science research master programs and consists of six members. Three members are from the teaching staff and three members are students in the research master programs (for distributional reasons students delegate four members; three of them have the right to vote). The Educational Board issues advice, both solicited and unsolicited, to the Director of Graduate Studies on all matters concerning the educational program, with the objective of maintaining or improving the quality of the programs.

Members of the Educational Board are:

Joey van Angeren 
Thomas Buser (Chair)
Sebastian Gryglewicz
Paul Doekhie
Tijmen Henkes
Jiayuan Ren
Milena Nakashima

Examination Board

The Examination Board serves Tinbergen Institute and the Business Data Science research master programs. The main duty of the Examination Board is to supervise all aspects of the quality assurance of the examinations and to determine whether a student fulfils the conditions for obtaining the degree, as defined in the Academic and Examination Regulations. The Examination Board decides on any student requests for exemptions and deviations from the program. 

Contact the Examination Board by email. Students can submit a request to the Examination Board in Osiris. 

Student Council

The student council is a joint council together with the Tinbergen Institute reseseach master students. The council channels concerns of students to staff and Director but is also there to remind students that there is more to life than studying. Contact the student council. For more information and agenda, look here. 

Student Council officers in the current year are listed here.