53 Notable alumni of
Tilburg University
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Tilburg University is 1372nd in the world, 476th in Europe, and 13th in the Netherlands by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 53 notable alumni from Tilburg University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Guus Meeuwis
- Occupations
- singerjuristguitaristsinger-songwritersongwriter
- Biography
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Gustaaf Stephanus Modestus "Guus" Meeuwis is a Dutch singer-songwriter. As part of the band Vagant, he scored several hits in the Netherlands and Flanders during the 1990s and first decade of the 2000s. On 24 May 2015, Meeuwis became the first Dutch language performing artist ever to play a fully booked concert at London's Royal Albert Hall.
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Klaas Dijkhoff
- Occupations
- juristlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Klaas Henricus Dominicus Maria Dijkhoff is a Dutch legal scholar and politician who led the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy in the House of Representatives from 2017 to 2021. He previously was Minister of Defence (2017) and State Secretary for Security and Justice (2015–2017).
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Dionne Stax
- Occupations
- television presenterpresenterjournalist
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Dionne Stax is a Dutch journalist and newsreader.
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Attje Kuiken
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Attje Harma Kuiken is a Dutch politician and former civil servant serving as the leader of the Labour Party in the House of Representatives since 22 April 2022. She has been a parliamentarian since 30 November 2006 with a brief interruption in 2010. She served two terms as parliamentary leader of the Labour Party, and was leader of the Labour Party between June and August of 2023.
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Cora van Nieuwenhuizen
- Occupations
- geographerpolitician
- Biography
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Cornelia "Cora" van Nieuwenhuizen-Wijbenga is a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). She served as Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management in the Third Rutte cabinet from 2017 to 2021, and briefly as Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy (ad interim) in 2021.
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Ralph Hamers
- Occupations
- bank manager
- Biography
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Ralph Adrianus Joseph Gerardus Hamers is a Dutch businessman who was the chief executive officer (CEO) of UBS Group from September 2020 to April 2023. He was the CEO of Dutch bank ING Group from October 2013 until June 2020.
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Tiny Kox
- Enrolled in Tilburg University
- 1973-1975 studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- juristpolitician
- Biography
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Martinus Josephus Maria "Tiny" Kox is a Dutch politician who served as President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 2022 until 2024. As a member of the Socialist Party (SP), he became a senator on 10 June 2003. He stepped down in February 2024, by which time he had become the longest-serving incumbent member of the Senate.
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Jolande Sap
- Occupations
- economistcolumnistpolitician
- Biography
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Johanna Catharina Maria "Jolande" Sap is a former Dutch politician and former educator and civil servant. A member of GroenLinks (GL), she replaced Wijnand Duyvendak as a member of the House of Representatives on 3 September 2008, after his resignation. She had temporarily been replacing Mariko Peters from the previous day who was on parental leave. From 16 December 2010 to 5 October 2012 she was party leader as well as parliamentary leader in the House of Representatives, replacing Femke Halsema who announced her retirement from politics as of that date.
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Max Drenth
- Occupations
- columnistphilosopherwriter
- Biography
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Maxim Februari, pseudonym of Maximiliaan Drenth (born 23 February 1963), is a Dutch writer, philosopher and columnist.
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Bente Becker
- Enrolled in Tilburg University
- 2003-2008 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Bente Becker is a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) who has served as a member of the House of Representatives since 2017.
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Grzegorz Mazurek
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Grzegorz Mazurek is a Polish professor, academic manager, and expert in Digital transformation and Management. He has serves as Rector of Kozminski University since 2020. He joined European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Board of Trustees in 2024 and was elected Vice-President of EFMD for Central and Eastern Europe in 2025. In 2026, he was appointed to the Superviosry Board of PKO Bank Polski.
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Herman Wijffels
- Occupations
- bankereconomist
- Biography
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H.H.F. "Herman" Wijffels is a retired Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and businessman.
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René van der Linden
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Pierre René Hubert Marie van der Linden is a retired Dutch politician and diplomat of the Catholic People's Party (KVP) and later the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) and economist.
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Wim van de Donk
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Wilhelmus Bernhard Henricus Josephus "Wim" van de Donk is a Dutch former politician and former academic, who served as the King's Commissioner of North Brabant from 1 October 2009 to 1 October 2020. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (Christen-Democratisch Appèl, CDA). He has been presiding Tilburg University since 19 November 2020.
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Michiel van Nispen
- Enrolled in Tilburg University
- Studied Dutch legislation
- Occupations
- spokespersonjuristathletics competitorpolitician
- Biography
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Michiel van Nispen is a Dutch politician for the Socialist Party. He has been a member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands from 2 April 2014, when he replaced Jan de Wit, until 11 November 2025.
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Piet Steenkamp
- Enrolled in Tilburg University
- In 1949 studied economics
- Occupations
- historianeconomistuniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Petrus Antonius Josephus Maria "Piet" Steenkamp was a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party.
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Fatma Koşer Kaya
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Fatma Koşer Kaya is a Dutch lawyer and politician of Turkish origin. As a member of Democrats 66 (D66) she was an MP from 8 September 2004 to 19 September 2012. She focused on social affairs. From February 2013 to June 2014, she was an alderwoman of Wassenaar. On 19 August 2015 she once again became a member of the House of Representatives, replacing Gerard Schouw. Her term in the House ended on 23 March 2017. From 20 June 2018 to 5 July 2022, she was an alderwoman of Amersfoort.
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Norbert Schmelzer
- Occupations
- economistpianistdiaristcomposerpoet
- Biography
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Wilhelm Klaus Norbert Schmelzer was a Dutch politician and economist who served as party leader of the Catholic People's Party (KVP) from 1963 to 1971 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1971 to 1973.
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Eugene Holiday
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Eugene Bernard Holiday is a Sint Maarten politician and who served as the first governor of Sint Maarten, which became a country (Dutch: land) within the Kingdom of the Netherlands on 10 October 2010. He was installed by the Council of Ministers of the Kingdom of the Netherlands on 7 September 2010. He was president of Princess Juliana International Airport before assuming his office as governor.
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Jan de Wit
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Johannes Marijnus Antonius Maria "Jan" de Wit is a former Dutch politician and lawyer. As a member of the Socialist Party (Socialistische Partij) he was an MP from 19 May 1998 to 1 April 2014. He focused on matters of judiciary and aliens policy. From 1995 to 1998, he was a Senator.
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Yvonne Timmerman-Buck
- Occupations
- lawyerjudgepolitician
- Biography
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Yvonne Elisabeth Marie Antoinette Timmerman-Buck is a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and jurist. She was a Member of the Council of State from 1 November 2009 until 2018.
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Shona McCallin
- Occupations
- field hockey player
- Biography
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Shona McCallin, is an English former international field hockey player who played as a midfielder for England and Great Britain. She was an Olympic gold medalist at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
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John Kerstens
- Occupations
- trade unionistpolitician
- Biography
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Johannes Wilhelmus Maria "John" Kerstens is a Dutch politician and former trade union leader. As a member of the Labour Party (Partij van de Arbeid) he was an MP between 20 September 2012 and 23 March 2017.
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Joaquim Miranda Sarmento
- Enrolled in Tilburg University
- In 2014 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Joaquim José Miranda Sarmento is a Portuguese university professor, economist and politician. He currently occupies the position of Minister of State and Finance in the XXIV and the XXV Government of Portugal, since April 2, 2024.
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Amit Goyal
- Born in
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India - Occupations
- engineerinventorphysicist
- Biography
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Amit Goyal is a SUNY Distinguished Professor and a SUNY Empire Innovation Professor at SUNY-Buffalo. He leads the Laboratory for Heteroepitaxial Growth of Functional Materials & Devices. He is also Director of the New York State Center of Excellence in Plastics Recycling Research & Innovation, an externally funded center with initial funding of $4.5M for three years at SUNY-Buffalo. He is the founding director of the multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary RENEW Institute at SUNY-Buffalo in Buffalo, New York and served as director from 2015-2021. RENEW is an internally funded research institute at SUNY-Buffalo. For his contributions to UB, in 2019, he was awarded the University at Buffalo or SUNY-Buffalo President's Medal, which recognizes “outstanding scholarly or artistic achievements, humanitarian acts, contributions of time or treasure, exemplary leadership or any other major contribution to the development of the University at Buffalo and the quality of life in the UB community.” This is one of the highest recognitions given at the university.
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Uri Hezkia Gneezy
- Occupations
- university teachereconomist
- Biography
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Uri Hezkia Gneezy is an Israeli-American behavioral economist, known for his work on incentives. He currently holds the Epstein/Atkinson Endowed Chair in Behavioral Economics at the University of California, San Diego's Rady School of Management. He is also a visiting research professor at the University of Amsterdam and NHH in Bergen.
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Frans Wolters
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Franciscus Leonardus Antonius Johannes Wolters (21 October 1943 in Venlo – 9 February 2005 in Venlo) was a Dutch politician. From 1981 to 1998 he was a member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands for the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA). He also was a member and an alderman of the municipal council of Venlo and mayor ad int. of Horst aan de Maas.
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Tom Berendsen
- Enrolled in Tilburg University
- Studied in 2002-2009
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tom B. W. Berendsen is a Dutch politician who has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).
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Paul Smeulders
- Years
- 1987-.. (age 39)
- Enrolled in Tilburg University
- 2007-2010 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Paul Smeulders is a Dutch politician of GroenLinks.
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Jan van den Brink
- Occupations
- draftspersonuniversity teacherresistance fightereconomistart collector
- Biography
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Johannes Roelof Maria "Jan" van den Brink was a Dutch politician and banker. He was minister of economic affairs in three successive cabinets.
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Jeu Sprengers
- Occupations
- association football playereconomist
- Biography
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Mathieu Gerardus Marie "Jeu" Sprengers was the Dutch chairman of the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) from 2002 until 2008. Sprengers served as chairman until his death on 6 April 2008, at the age of 69.
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Steven Martina
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- civil servantpolitician
- Biography
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Ivan Steve "Steven" Martina is a Curaçaoan businessman and politician of the Partido MAN. He is Minister of Economic Development in the cabinet of Eugene Rhuggenaath since 22 May 2020 and served in the same position from 2 June 2017 to 21 February 2019. He previously served as Minister of Economic Development and vice Prime Minister in the cabinet of Daniel Hodge between 31 December 2012 and 7 June 2013.
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Gerard Veldkamp
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianwritersociologisteconomist
- Biography
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Gerardus Mattheus Johannes "Gerard" Veldkamp was a Dutch politician of the Catholic People's Party (KVP) and economist.
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Marius van Amelsvoort
- Occupations
- politicianbanker
- Biography
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Marius Johannes Josephus van Amelsvoort was a Dutch politician and diplomat of the defunct Catholic People's Party (KVP) party and later the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and economist.
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Sanneke Vermeulen
- Enrolled in Tilburg University
- 2014-2015 graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- judokapolitician
- Biography
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Sanneke Vermeulen is a Dutch Paralympic judoka. She represented the Netherlands at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China and she won one of the bronze medals in the women's 70 kg event.
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Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh
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- 1965-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- university teachereconomist
- Biography
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Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh is an environmental economist of Dutch origin. He is ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and deputy director for Research of its Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, and professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at VU University Amsterdam.
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Pieter Bogaers
- Occupations
- autobiographereconomistpoliticiantrade unionist
- Biography
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Petrus Clemens Wilhelmus Maria "Pieter" Bogaers was a Dutch politician of the Catholic People's Party (KVP) and later co-founder of the Political Party of Radicals (PPR).
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Matthijs van Miltenburg
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Matthijs van Miltenburg is a Dutch politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2014 until 2019. He is a member of the Democrats 66.
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Henry Mora Jiménez
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Henry Mora Jiménez is a Costa Rican economist and political activist. Mora was a member of the 2014-2018 Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica, serving with the Citizens' Action Party. He was the President of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica from 2014 to 2015.
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Peter Jan Margry
- Occupations
- historianethnologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Peter Jan Margry is a Dutch historian and European ethnologist who was till November 2022 professor European Ethnology at the University of Amsterdam and, from 1993 to 2022, senior fellow at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences research center Meertens Institute in the Netherlands. Previously, he worked in The Hague and Den Bosch where he held positions as archivist-researcher, historian and archival inspector successively at the Dutch National Archives, the Court of Audit (Netherlands) and the province of North Brabant. During the 1990s he was also active as a consultant on document heritage, working in Suriname and Papua (Indonesia).
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Theo Bemelmans
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- 1943-.. (age 83)
- Occupations
- computer scientistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Theodore Aloysius Maria Bemelmans (born 24 February 1943) is a Dutch computer scientist and Emeritus Professor of Administrative Information Systems and Automation at the Eindhoven University of Technology.
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Jacques Aarden
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jacobus Maria "Jacques" Aarden was a Dutch politician.
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Jan Cremers
- Years
- 1952-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- sociologistpoliticiantrade unionist
- Biography
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Jan M.B. Cremers is a Dutch sociologist and former politician of the Labour Party (PvdA) who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2008 until 2009.
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Bart le Blanc
- Years
- 1946-.. (age 80)
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Lambertus Johannes Carolus Maria "Bart" Le Blanc is a Dutch economist, with a career spanning the sectors of public finance, banking and asset management. He is one of the founding partners of Andreas Capital S.A a Luxembourg-based asset management company. Since 1 January 2015 he is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the APG Group (€400 billion pension funds service provider/asset manager). He is Chairman of the Investment Committee of the United Nations, office for project services UNOPS.
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Rinus Peijnenburg
- Occupations
- trade unionistpolitician
- Biography
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Marinus Wilhelmus Johanna Maria Peijnenburg (29 January 1928, Geldrop – 1 April 1979, Rotterdam) was a Dutch politician.
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Theo van de Klundert
- Occupations
- university teachereconomist
- Biography
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Theodorus Cornelis Michael Josephus van de Klundert (27 February 1936 – 6 December 2024) was a Dutch economist, and Professor of Economics at Tilburg University.
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Dirk Bernard Joseph Schouten
- Enrolled in Tilburg University
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- university teachereconomist
- Biography
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Dirk Bernard Joseph Schouten, known as Dick Schouten, was a Dutch economist, and Professor of General Economics and Economic History at Tilburg University, known for his work concerning macroeconomic modelling.
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Harry Notenboom
- Occupations
- university teachereconomistpolitician
- Biography
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Henricus Antonius Cornelis Marie "Harrij" Notenboom was a Dutch politician. He served as member of the House of Representatives from 1963 to 1979 and in the European Parliament from 1971 to 1984. Notenboom was a member of the Catholic People's Party and later the Christian Democratic Appeal when the former had merged into it in 1980.
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Stefan Stremersch
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 54)
- Biography
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Stefan Stremersch holds the Desiderius Erasmus Distinguished Chair of Economics and a Chair of Marketing, both at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands and a Professor of Marketing at Ghent University, Belgium. Previously he held positions at IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, USA, Goizueta Business School, Emory University, USA, and USC Marshall School of Business, USA. His main research interests focus on innovation diffusion, marketing of technology and science, marketing strategy, new product growth, business economics of the life sciences and commercialization of new technologies. He is the scientific director of the Erasmus Healthcare Business Center and ECMI (European Center of Marketing and Innovation). Stremersch is also founder and managing partner at The Marketing Technology and Innovation Institute (MTI²), a consulting company focused on enabling people and firms to transform their innovation potential into commercial success.
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Antal van den Bosch
- Occupations
- researcherdirectorlinguistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Antal P.J. van den Bosch is a Dutch-language researcher. He has been director of the Meertens Institute since January 2017. He previously was a professor at Tilburg University and Radboud University Nijmegen.
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Joost Möller
- Years
- 1967-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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J.H. Möller (born May 20, 1967 in Eindhoven) is a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).
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Guus Albregts
- Occupations
- university teachereconomistpolitician
- Biography
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Augustinus Hendricus Martinus Albregts (22 November 1900, in Vught – 8 June 1980, in 's-Hertogenbosch) was a Dutch economist and politician. As a member of the Catholic People's Party (KVP) he was a minister without portfolio, dealing with enhancing productivity in the first Drees cabinet from 1951 to 1952.
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Ravesa Lleshi
- Years
- 1976-.. (age 50)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Ravesa Lleshi became the Albanian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva in 2018.
