Notable Staff
Nobel laureate
- Jan Tinbergen (Inaugural Recipient of Nobel Prize for Economics, 1969)
Politics
- Jan Peter Balkenende (former Prime minister of the Netherlands)
- Pim Fortuyn (politician)
- Bianca Hoogendijk (wife of Jan Peter Balkenende, former Prime minister of the Netherlands)
- Cees Veerman (the former Dutch minister of agriculture, environment and foodquality)
- Alexander Rinnooy Kan (president of the Dutch Social-Economic Council)
Business
- Hans Wijers, CEO AkzoNobel; former Minister of Economic Affairs The Netherlands
Scientists
- Jean Paelinck (European Prize In Regional Science, 2003)
- Frank Grosveld (Spinozapremie 1995)
- Jan Hoeijmakers (Spinozapremie 1998)
- Albert Osterhaus (head of the National Influenza Centre, and head of the world reference center for measles of the World Health Organization)
- Gerrit van Poelje (founder of the Public Administration in The Netherlands)
- Jo Ritzen (former Ministry of Education, Culture and Science in the Netherlands and alumnus as well)
- Henri Theil (successor of Jan Tinbergen; together with Jan Tinbergen founder of the Econometric Institute, 1956)
- Eelco van Asperen (computer scientist, Erasmus School of Economics)
Philosophy
- Luce Irigaray
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