Becoming a world-class university, 2016 (11-6-18)

Professor Jozef Ritzen, a Dutch national, has been an honorary Professor at Maastricht University since 2011 (Chair: the International Economics of Higher Education, Science and Technology). Professor Ritzen was President of Maastricht University from February 2003 to January 2011 and Special Adviser and Vice-President of the World Bank from 1998 to 2003. He served as Minister of Education, Culture, and Science of the Netherlands from 1989 to 1999. Professor Ritzen has academic appointments at Nijmegen University, Erasmus University in the Netherlands, the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US. Professor Ritzen is a member of the KAU IAB.