Dirk Schoenmaker appointed chair of Dutch government policy council

The Dutch cabinet has approved the appointment of Dirk Schoenmaker as chair of the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR). He will take up the role on 1 February 2027, succeeding Corien Prins, who is due to step down in January after 10 years as chair.

Schoenmaker is a professor of finance at Erasmus University Rotterdam, where his research focuses on sustainable finance, central banks and European integration. He will continue teaching there one day a week after taking up the post, and will retain his visiting professorship at the European University Institute in Florence.

He is also a board member of the Dutch pension fund Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn. Schoenmaker studied law and economics in Rotterdam and earned his doctorate at the London School of Economics.