prof. dr. H.W.A. (Erik) Dietzenbacher
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Erik Dietzenbacher obtained his MSc in Econometrics (1982) and his PhD in Economics (1991) from the University of Groningen. Currently he is Full Professor of Interindustry Economics at the University of Groningen. He has also been Affiliate Research Professor at the Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL) of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Honorary Professor at the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) in Beijing.
He was the project coordinator of “World Input-Output Database: Construction and Applications” (WIOD), a large-scale collaborative research project that was funded (approximately 4 million euros) by the EU in its 7th Framework Programme, in which 11 international partners participated, and which ran from 2009-2012.
He is former President of the International Input-Output Association (IIOA, 2013-2018), Fellow of the IIOA, Fellow of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), Honorary President of the Chinese Input-Output Association (CIOA), Honorary Fellow of the Hispanic-American Input-Output Society (SHAIO), and served on the advisory board of the Regional Research Institute (RRI) at West Virginia University in Morgantown.