Kees Goudswaard is Professor of Economics (0 fte) and Professor of Social Security (0,2 fte, a chair supported by Instituut Gak) at the Law School, Leiden University.

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Kees Goudswaard is Professor of Economics (0 fte) and Professor of Social Security (0,2 fte, a chair supported by Instituut Gak) at the Law School, Leiden University. His research areas are: social policy, pensions and public finance.

Goudswaard has been director of several research programs on social security, for which he received grants of approximately 4 million euros. At the moment he supervises a project on self-reliance and social protection, funded by Instituut Gak. In recent years he has done much research on pensions, as a fellow of Netspar, Tilburg University.

He has hold several advisory and supervisory positions. Until 2020 he was a member of the Supervisory Board of the Dutch Central Bank. For 14 years he has been a crown-appointed member of the Social and Economic Council. He was chairman of two committees that have advised the government on the future of the pension system. 

At the moment Goudswaard is supervisor of two large pension funds. He is chairman of the Supervisory Board of Pensioenfonds Horeca en Catering and member of the Supervisory Board of Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn. Also, he is vice chairman of the board of Insituut Gak, a foundation that supports research and projects on social security and labour market.

Education

• Doctoral in economics, graduation with distinction, Free University of Amsterdam (1981)
• Doctor's degree, Leiden University (1988), thesis on public debt management

Main current positions

• Professor of social security (1995 - now, 0,2 fte), GAK Foundation
• Professor of economics (2000 - now, from May 2022 0 fte), Faculty of Law, Leiden Univer­si­ty
• Vice Chairman of the Board of Instituut Gak
• Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Pensioenfonds Horeca en Catering
• Member of the Supervisory Board of Penioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn.
• Member Editorial Board, Journal Public Finance and Management
• Member Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities
• Research fellow Netspar, Tilburg University
• Member Advisory Board Stichting Pensioenlab
• Member Scientific Board Wim Drees Fonds

Main former positions

• Member of the Supervisory Board of DNB, the Dutch Central Bank
• Crown-member of the Social and Economic Council (the main government advisory body on social and economic policy in the Netherlands, 1994 - 2008)
• Member of the Executive Board of the Social and Economic Council (2000 - 2006)
• Chairman Expert Committee on Social and Economic Policy (Social and Economic Council, 2007 - 2010)
• Chairman Expert Committee on the sustainability of the pension system (Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, 2009 - 2010)
• Member of the Central Planning Committee (Advisory Committee of CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, 1997 - 2004)
• Member Advisory Committee Macroeconomic Statistics, Statistics Netherlands (2008 - 2012)
• Member Delta Lloyd Advisory Board (2005 - 2012)
• Member Achmea Vitale Scientific Advisory Board (2009 - 2012)
• Member of the board of the Foundation for Public Finance (Drees Stichting, 1999 - 2012)
• Member of the board of the Dutch Social Security Association (NGSZ, 2007 - 2012)

Consultancy

• Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment
• Ministry of Finance
• Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport
• Commission of the European Communities
• Netherlands Court of Audit
• Central Bank of the Netherlands Antilles
• Delta Lloyd
• Achmea 

Fellow

• Research Fellow Leiden Law School, Leiden Unversity
• External Fellow Netspar, Tilburg University  

Research grants

Grants by GAK Foundation (approximately 3.5 million euros), Netspar, European Union, SNS Reaal, Dutch Association of Insurers (Verbond van Verzekeraars), VNO/NCW, Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment.

Teaching

• Social security (coordination)
• Reform of social security (coordination)

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