Prof. Hans J. Blommestein PricewaterhouseCoopers Professor of Finance, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands

Hans J. Blommestein is PricewaterhouseCoopers Professor of Finance, Tilburg University, The Netherlands, the Head of the Bond Market and Public Debt Management Unit, OECD, Paris, and Manager of the OECD-South African Centre on African Debt Management and Bond Markets. Prof. Blommestein published numerous articles on econometric methodology, spatial economics, pension... read morefinance, the political and economic transformation process in former socialist countries and financial markets. He is serving on the board of the Association d'economie financiere and the related editorial boards of Revue d'economie financiere, the Geneva-based Observatoire de la Finance and the related editorial board of Finance & the Common Good/Bien Commun and the editorial board of Eurasian Review of Econometrics. He has served or is serving on several international advisory or governance boards such as Group of Ten Working Party on the macroeconomic implications of aging, IMF-led advisory board on payment system reform in Russia, US-led advisory board on a reform program for Serbia, EU advisory group on EU pension systems and others.