Harry Garretsen is Professor of International Economics at Utrecht University in The Netherlands. His main research area is the new economic geography or geographical economics. Other research areas include monetary and financial economics, and macro-economic theory and policy making. He is the co-author of a leading textbook on geographical economics (Cambridge UP, 2001) and has published widely in this field in journals such as Regional Studies, Kyklos, Regional Science and Urban Economics, J of Economic Geography or J of Regional Science. At present he is co-editor of Spatial Economic Analysis, editorial board member of Papers in Regional Science and acts (2006) as guest-editor for Regional Science and Urban Economics. He has edited books as well as contributed to books on geographical economics and related themes for Cambridge UP, MIT Press and Routledge. Harry has been a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, Princeton, Yale and University of Munich. He is also research fellow of CESifo Munich and the HWWA institute in Hamburg.

In total he is the author of approx. 100 scholarly articles. In no small part through his work on geographical or regional economics, he is at present deputy crown member of the Social Economic Council, an adviser to Netherlands’ Bureau of Economic Policy Analysis Analysis (CPB) and to the Netherlands’ Spatial Institute (RPB) as well as a member of a group of four economists that advises the Dutch Secretary of Education on economic issues.