Jo Ritzen
| Jozef Marie Mathias Ritzen | |
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Ritzen in 1996
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| Minister of Education, Culture, and Sciences | |
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In office 22 August 1994 – 3 August 1998 |
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| Prime Minister | Wim Kok |
| Preceded by | Office created |
| Succeeded by | Loek Hermans |
| Minister of Education and Sciences | |
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In office 7 November 1989 – 22 August 1994 |
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| Prime Minister | Ruud Lubbers |
| Preceded by | Gerrit Braks |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
| Personal details | |
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3 October 1945 Heerlen, Netherlands |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Political party | Labour Party (PvdA) |
Jozef Marie Mathias "Jo" Ritzen (born 3 October 1945 in Heerlen) is a Dutch economist and social-democratic politician.
Ritzen started in 1963 at Bernardinus College in Heerlen. In 1970 he obtained an engineer's degree in physics from the Technische Hogeschool Delft. He received his PhD degree in 1976 from the Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam with the thesis "Education, economic growth, and income inequality metrics". The thesis received the Winkler Prins Prize as the best economics dissertation in the period 1975-1978.
Before entering politics, Ritzen worked in a variety of jobs: as a project consultant in former East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), as a lecturer in the economics of education at the University of California, Berkeley, at the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen (now Radboud University), and as a full professor in the economics of education at the Erasmus Universiteit from 1981-1982. In 1988-1989 he was a visiting distinguished professor at the Robert M. La Follette Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. He has written or co-authored eleven books. Many articles written or co-authored by him are published in the fields of education, economics, public finance and development economics.
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