Marcel Timmer, director of the Groningen Growth and Development Centre will be appointed as one of the three board members of the Netherlands Bureau of Economic Policy Analysis, CPB, starting September 1, 2019. In this position, he will jointly lead the premier economic policy analysis organization in the Netherlands and be closely linked to economic policy-making in the Netherlands. He will also continue to be active in the GGDC on a part-time appointment at the University of Groningen