Experts & Expertise

Ph.D. degree in economics, Free University of Amsterdam; main areas of research and publications: econometric methodology, spatial economics, pension finance, transformation process in formerly planned economies, ethics and finance and the functioning of financial markets.

• PricewaterhouseCoopers Professor of Finance.
• Head of the Capital Market, Public Debt Management, and Emerging Bond Markets Programmes at OECD in Paris.

Previous assignments and positions:

1998-2000, Head of the Financial Affairs Division, OECD;
1991-1995, CSCE Professor of Economics, University of Twente, The Netherlands;
1990-1998, Advisor and visiting scholar, IMF;
1986-1990, Deputy Head of the International Monetary Affairs Division, Dutch Ministry of Finance, the Netherlands member of the OECD Committee on Capital Movements and Invisible Transactions and a temporary alternate Member of the Monetary Committee of the EC; assistant Former Minister of Finance Onno Ruding in his capacity as Chairman of the Interim Committee of the IMF;
1984-1986, visiting Scientist, Smithsonian Institution.

Member of the editorial boards of: Association d'economie financiere (and the related editorial boards of Revue d'economie financiere and the Rapport Moral sur l'argent dans le monde); Observatoire de la Finance (and the related editorial board of Finance & the Common Good/Bien Commun); and the Eurasian Review of Econometrics.

H.J. (Hans) Blommestein teaches the following subjects:

• European Financial and Monetary Integration (310124) Further information
• Seminar Financial Markets and Institutions (310142) Further information

Member of the following organisations, groupings or advisory boards:

the Governance Board of the OECD-Italian Public Debt Management Network; the OECD-led Emerging Markets Network (EmNet); the NSF Research Project on the Prospects of International Financial Service Centres (joint with Professors George M. von Furstenberg and George Kaufman); the International Court of the Environment Foundation (as Economic advisor); IMF-led International Advisory Board on Payment System reform in Russia; US-coordinated International Advisory Board on economic reform in Serbia; EU Advisory Group on the second pillar of EU pension systems; OECD/FEAS Working Group on Capital Market Development in Eurasia; Advisor Russian Strategy for Sovereign Debt and Asset Management; US-coordinated International Advisory Board on Ukrainian Bond Market Development and Strategy for Public Debt Management; member of the Group of Ten (G-10) Working Party on the Macroeconomic Implications of Ageing of Populations; the Italian Committee on the Right to Food and the Code of Conduct for Governments and Businesses; the informal French task force on the 'Devenir des Systemes Bancaires'.