Jan Oosterhaven (Gouda, 1945) is a Dutch scientist. Prof. Jan Oosterhaven was professor of general economics at the University of Groningen until June 2010. His research concerns the Interregional input-output analysis, Regional Demo-Economic Models, Economic Impact of Transport Infrastructure, Evaluation of Regional and Urban Policy.
These interests also made him politically active. He has been a member of the State Committee for Economy and Mobility of the Provincial States of Groningen since 2007. For the City Party in Groningen he is the list diver in the elections for the City Council in 2010.
Jan Oosterhaven graduated in Groningen in 1981 after graduating at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam in 1969. His dissertation received the title "Interregional Input-Output Analysis and Dutch Regional Policy Problems". In 1990 he became professor in Groningen. Previously, he was from 1985 to 1986 Visiting Professor of Urban Economics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and from 1998 to 1999 Part-time Senior Adviser Spatial Economics at TNO Inro in Delft.
Oosterhaven is a member of the Board of Transport and Water Management Expert Group, Board member of the Stichting Spatial Economy Foundation, member of the Ubbo Emmius Colleghie Bureau of the Congress Bureau Groningen and Chairman of the Stichting Spatial Economy Groningen.
On Monday, June 7, 2010, after his farewell lecture, he got the Officer's Cross of the Order of Orange-Nassau.
In the recital of the nomination, "the theory and practice of the input-output analysis was mentioned as the field in which Mr. Oosterhaven is one of the most important professors in the world. Both in his own scientific research and in The FNEI framework has played a very active role in the development of interregional IO tables for all Dutch provinces in close cooperation with the Central Bureau of Statistics. Its consistent and quantitative orientation has led to new contributions in the estimation of regional impacts of policy interventions The expertise built in the Netherlands in the construction of input output tables has been found worldwide. The importance of Mr. Oosterhaven for the input-output analysis is reflected in the fact that he has two extremely important positions From 1994-1998, decorandus editor-in-chief of the leading was not national journal, scientific journal Economic Systems Research. He has given the magazine a face to face. In 2007 he was elected president of the International Input Output Association for the period 2007-2009, after being former vice president in the period 2001-2006. "
Jan Oosterhaven said goodbye to his chair in 2010 with a farewell lecture called "Concentration versus spreading: about old concepts, new theory and shrinkage". He is still part-time at the University of Groningen. Publications
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