Pieter Korteweg (Klundert, 28 December 1941) is a Dutch economist. Life
Pieter Korteweg was born in 1941 as the eldest son in a family with four children. He is a distant family of forty years old economist Simon Korteweg (1902-1997).
Korteweg has been promoted to Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Each of his two marriages has two daughters. Career
From 1971 to 1982 he was a professor of monetary economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. At that time, as one of the few Dutch economists, he defended Milton Friedman's very controversial ideas in the 1970s.
From 1981 to 1986 he was then Treasury General at the Ministry of Finance. As a professor of monetary economics, he was succeeded by Eduard Bomhoff.
From 1986 to 2001 he was then a top manager of the Robeco investment fund. Under his leadership, Robeco concluded a cooperation agreement with Rabobank in 1993. Korteweg could not prevent Robeco from being taken over by the Rabobank around 1996/7 for an amount of around 1200 million guilders (about 500 million euros). In 2001, Korteweg resigned from Robeco's top.
Under the auspices of Marius Jonkhart, he has been a Commissioner of the National Investment Bank.
He is Vice Chairman of Cerberus Global Investment Advisors and Director of Cerberus in The Netherlands. He is also an advisor to Anthos, the private bank of the Brenninkmeijer family.
He also served as chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Central Bureau of Statistics and Vice-Chairman of the Dutch Supervisory Board. Korteweg has been a member of the so-called "Steering Committee" of the Bilderberg Conference.
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