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Members of the jury

Past and present members of the jury:

Jurgen Brauer

Jurgen Brauer is a tenured Professor of Economics at Augusta State University’s James M. Hull College of Business. He is director of Economists for Peace and Security.

James K. Galbraith is a professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and at the Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin. He holds Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government and Business Relations and Professor of Government. He is the Chair of Economists for Peace and Security.

Cor A.J. Herkströter

Cor Herkströter was President of Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and Chairman of the Committee of Managing Directors of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group. He is member of the Supervisory Board of ING Group. Mr. Herkströter is professor of International Management at the Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Henk Jager

Henk Jager holds the Chair in International Economics at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Andries Klaasse Bos

Andries Klaasse Bos is part of the staff of Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Lawrence R. Klein

Lawrence Robert Klein is an American economist. For his work in creating computer models to forecast economic trends in the field of econometrics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1980. He is a trustee of Economists for Peace and Security.

Richard McCormick (member 1998)

Richard D. McCormick was Chairman of the Board, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of U S WEST, Inc. At the moment he is Honorary Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce, Vice Chairman of the United States Council for International Business and Director Emeritus of Creighton University.

Bruno Naarden

Bruno Naarden is professor in Eastern European Studies at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Annemarie Rima

Annemarie Rima is as associate academic director of the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, University of Maastricht. From 1991 – 1999 she was Chair of Economists for Peace and Security.

Haim Roet

Haim Roet, was economist and financial analyst at the World Bank. At the moment he is Secretary-General of the Israeli Foundation for Quality Management (IFQM) and the Human Security Group. Haim Roet is the nephew of the late Isaac Roet.

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Joseph E. Stiglitz is an American economist. He is professor at the Columbia University. Stiglitz was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal in 1979 and, in 2001, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He is former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank. Stiglitz is a trustee of the Economists for Peace and Security.

Jan Tinbergen

Jan Tinbergen (1903 – 1994), a Dutch economist, was professor at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. In 1969, he was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, which he shared with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes. Tinbergen was a founding trustee of Economists for Peace and Security.

James Tobin

James Tobin (1918 – 2002) was an American economist. He was professor at Yale University. Tobin was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal in 1955 and, in 1981, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. Outside of academia, Tobin became widely known for his suggestion of a tax on foreign exchange transactions, now known as the "Tobin tax". Tobin was a trustee of the Economists for Peace and Security.