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Course Taught

Agricultural and Rural Development (Semester Two)

Higher Education

1970: Master of Science, Landbouwhogeschool Wageningen

Professional Career

2000-date

Agricultural Policy Adviser, Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, The Hague

1994-2000

Head Strategic Policy Division, Ministers Office, Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries, The Hague

1992-date

Part-time Professor of Agricultural Economics, later on European Economic Integration, University of Amsterdam

1986-1994

Deputy Director International Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries, The Hague

1976-1986

Researcher, Agricultural Economics Research Institute, The Hague

1970-1976

Lecturer, Department of Economics, Faculty of Law, Erasmus University, Rotterdam

1968

Stagiaire, Agricultural Department, Eurostat, Luxembourg

He has also taught extensively at the Agricultural University, Wageningen, and at The Netherlands Institute of International Relations (Clingendael)

Publications in the field of European Integration

EU-Beleid voor landbouw, voedsel en groen (EU policies for agriculture, food and environment). Edited in cooperation with Arie Oskam and Huib Silvis. Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen, 2005.

European Union, Common Agricultural Policy, and World Trade. The Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy XIV (2005) II pp 389-412.

Farming and Free Trade; Effects of trade liberalisation and EU enlargement on the Dutch agricultural sector: an exploratory study. Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries. The Hague, 2002 (with H.F. Massink).

Milestones in the Common Agricultural Policy. In Walter Luchetti et al (eds): History of European Agricultural Politics, Veronafiere/ Academia Europa per l’ Agricultura e l’ Agroindustria, Verona, 2002 (with T. de Groot and D. Strijker).

EU institutions and the decision-making process for agricultural policy. In A. Burrell and A. Oskam, (ed.): Agricultural Policy and Enlargement of the European Union. Wageningen Pers, Wageningen, 2000.

Toekomst van het Gemeenschappelijk landbouwbeleid (Future of the Common Agricultural Policy) In J. de Hoogh and H.J. Silvis (eds.): EU-landbouwpolitiek van binnen en van buiten, Wageningen Pers, Wageningen, 1998.

CAP 2001. From agriculture to rural and environmental policy. Tidskrift Kungl. Skogs- och Lantbruksakademiens 136 (1997) 18 pp. 9-14.

Dutch agricultural policy objectives. In R. Kjeldahl and M. Tracy (ed.): Renationalisation of the Common Agricultural Policy? Institute of Agricultural Economics, Copenhagen, 1994 (with P. Berkhout).

EC decision-making, institutions and the Common Agricultural Policy.  European Review of Agricultural Economics 20(1993) 2: pp. 131-150 (with F.A. van der Zee).

De hervorming van het EG-landbouwbeleid (The reform of the CAP. In: Economisch Statistische Berichten 77 (1992) 3864: p. 588-593 (with M. Mookhoek en P. Berkhout).

Over de redelijkheid voor de verbruikers van de landbouwprijzen in de EG (On the reasonability for consumers of agricultural prices in the EC).  Landbouw-Economisch Instituut. Den Haag, 1989.

Budgetary constraints and international realities in the CAP. European Review of Agricultural Economics 14 (1987) 2 pp. 37-47.

Het Europese landbouwbeleid voorbij de scheidslijn van zelfvoor­ziening. (The Common Agricultural Policy beyond the self-sufficiency borderline). Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid (Voorstudie 46). Staatsuitgeverij. Den Haag, 1985 (with D. Strijker)

Une Communauté devenue exportatrice nette: point de vue néerlandais sur l’avenir de la Politique Agricole Commune. Economie rurale, 163, pp10-14, 1984.

Analysis of world demand for dairy products from the EC. In K.J. Thomson and R.M. Warrren, (ed.): Price and market policies in European agriculture. University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1984 (with A.J. Oskam).

De wereldvraag naar zuivelprodukten uit de EG en de betekenis voor het afzetbeleid van de Gemeenschap (World demand for dairy products from the EC and its impact on surplus disposal policies). Landbouw-Economisch Instituut. Den Haag, 1984 (with A.J. Oskam).

De superheffing in the praktijk (The superlevy in practise). Landbouw-Economisch Instituut, Den Haag, 1981 (with C. van Bruchem and J.H. Post).

Doeleinden, instrumenten en effecten van het Gemeenschappelijk landbouwbeleid. (Objectives, instruments and effects of the CAP). Landbouw-Economisch Instituut. Den Haag, 1980.

Agricultural price and income policy in the EC: alternative policies and their implications. Landbouw-Economisch Instituut. Den Haag, 1979.