Harry Garretsen is Professor of International Economics & Business at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His main research interests are international economics & geography, and leadership and management. He serves on the editorial boards of various international journals, is active as an economic policy adviser, inter alia as a member of the Banking Council of the Dutch central bank.
He co-directs, together with Janka Stoker, In the LEAD, a centre of expertise on leadership at the University of Groningen (https://www.rug.nl/inthelead/). His research is summarized in An Introduction to Geographical and Urban Economics: A spiky world, Cambridge University Press, 2020 (co-authored with with Steven Brakman and Charles van Marrewijk). Garretsen is a long-time collaborator of Professors Ron Martin and Pete Tyler, a.o. via a joint editorship of the Cambridge Journal of the Regions, Economy, and Society (CJRES), and his visiting positions at the Univ. of Cambridge at the Dept. of Land Economy as well as St. Catharine’s College.
