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Gerben de Jong

Gerben de Jong is a senior economist and project manager at SEO Economic Research. He helps clients analyse complex economic issues and translates findings into directly applicable insights, based on the latest economic and business knowledge.

His expertise is in competition policy, market regulation, innovation, entrepreneurship and sustainability. Within this broad field, he carries out policy evaluations and other research for various Dutch ministries and (international) government agencies. He also advises private organisations, such as industry associations, law firms in competition matters and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and leads several annual monitors on innovation and the investment climate in the Netherlands.

Gerben is an expert in combining advanced econometric models with applied economic theory. He has broad experience in working with large (micro)datasets such as those of Statistics Netherlands (CBS), and is considered one of the experts in the Netherlands in this field. He has also conducted a lot of practice-oriented and policy-driven research via (dynamic) questionnaires, controlled experiments, literature studies and various other quantitative and qualitative research methods.

Besides his work at SEO, Gerben is affiliated with VU University Amsterdam. His academic research mostly focuses on improving market functioning and sustainability in international network markets, including the airline industry. In doing so, he takes into account the behaviour of consumers, (transport) companies and external parties, as well as the often conflicting economic, ecological and social interests. He obtained his PhD on this research in 2019, after which he worked at leading foreign institutes with a prestigious NWO Rubicon grant.

If you would like to know what Gerben could do for your organisation, please feel free to contact him directly at:

g.dejong@seo.nl