Charles van Marrewijk is Professor of International Macroeconomics at Utrecht University School of Economics (since 2008) and Director of the Tjalling Charles Koopmans Institute (since 2009). He studied horticulture and worked as a grower before studying economics in Holland at Erasmus University Rotterdam (1981 1985, BA and MA) and in the United States at Purdue University (1985 1988, MSc and PhD). He worked at the University of Groningen (1987 1990) and at Erasmus University Rotterdam (1990 2008), where he was also Academic Director of the Institute of Housing and Urban Development Studies (...