Dr. Peter Nijkamp

Peter Nijkamp is emeritus Professor in regional and urban economics and in economic geography at the VU University, and associated with the Open University (OU), Heerlen (The Netherlands), Jheronimus Academy of Data Science (JADS), in the division of Smart Cities, Hertogenbosch (The Netherlands), Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm (Sweden), and A. Mickiewicz University, Poznan (Poland). He is member of editorial/advisory boards of more than 30 journals. According to the RePec list, he belongs to the top 30 well-known economists worldwide. He is also a fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, and past vice president of this organization. He has served as president of the governing board of the Netherlands Research Council (NWO). In 1996, he was awarded the most prestigious scientific prize in the Netherlands, the Spinoza award. He is also the vice president of The Regional Science Academy (TRSA).