Personal Life
Willem Buiter went to the European School, in Brussels, Belgium, from 1962 to 1967, where he obtained his European Baccalaureate.
Willem's father, Harm Buiter (1922-2011), was a Dutch economist, international trades union official and politician of the Labour Party (PvdA), who had served as Mayor of Groningen.
In 1973 Buiter was married to Jean Archer. The marriage was dissolved in 1997. They had two children, David Michael Alejandro, born 22 February 1991 in Callao, Peru and Elizabeth Lorca, born 6 August 1993 in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Buiter, since 5 June 1998 is married to Anne Sibert, professor of Economics at Birkbeck, University of London who was also an External Member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Iceland from 2009 till 2012. Ms Sibert, on account of her criticism on the banking system and European finances, has been called "a commentator who cannot easily be ignored"
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