Consiliul consultativ științific
Prof. Dr. Jo Ritzen
Biografie
Jo Ritzen was Minister of Education, Culture and Science of the Netherlands from 1989 to 1998, the longest-serving education minister in the European Union, and sat in the Dutch cabinet when the Maastricht Treaty was signed. He went on to serve as Vice-President of the World Bank, first for development economics and then for the Human Development Network, and was President of Maastricht University from 2003 to 2011. Trained as a physics engineer at Delft and as an economist at Erasmus University Rotterdam, he is Professorial Fellow in the international economics of science, technology and higher education at UNU-MERIT and the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance. He founded and chairs Empower European Universities, and edited A Second Chance for Europe, a collective case for rebooting the Union.