This curriculum vitae provides information on Andries Brandsma's professional experience and education. Some key details: - He has worked for the European Commission since 1988, currently as a Senior Scientific Officer in Seville, Spain. Previous roles included Deputy Head of Unit in Brussels. - He holds a PhD in Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam and has published numerous papers on topics related to European integration and macroeconomic modeling. - In addition to his European Commission experience, he has also worked as an economist in the Netherlands and UK, and as a university lecturer and researcher.

1. E U R O P E A N
C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E
F O R M A T
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name BRANDSMA, ANDRIES SCHELTE
Address HUIZUMERLAAN 50, 8934 BH LEEUWARDEN, THE NETHERLANDS
Telephone +34 954 488 287 (work)
+31 58 7370122 (privé) +34 636 16 44 68 (mobile)
Fax +34 954 488 326 (work)
E-mail andries.brandsma@ec.europa.eu
andries.brandsma@hotmail.com
Nationality NL
Date of birth 3 June 1954
WORK EXPERIENCE
• Dates (from) MARCH 2001
• Name and address of employer European Commission, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Seville, Spain
• Type of business or sector Technology, Employment, Competitiveness and Society; Support to the European Research
Area; Knowledge for Growth
• Occupation or position held Senior Scientific Officer
• Main activities and responsibilities Enlargement; Industrial R&D and Innovation; Economic and Policy Analysis; Regional
Economic Modelling
• Dates (from – to) MAY 1996 - FEBRUARY 2001
• Name and address of employer European Commission, Brussels
• Type of business or sector Candidate Countries and Enlargement Issues
• Occupation or position held Deputy Head of Unit
• Main activities and responsibilities Regular Reports, Joint Assessments of Medium-Term Economic Policy Priorities, Editor
Economic Reform Monitor, Task Manager Phare-ACE Programme (Action for Cooperation in
Economics)
• Dates (from – to) NOVEMBER 1988 - APRIL 1996
• Name and address of employer European Commission, Brussels
• Type of business or sector Econometrics; Evaluation of Structural Funds, Social and Agricultural Policy
• Occupation or position held Civil servant
• Main activities and responsibilities Policy simulations and scenario analysis
• Dates (from – to) JANUARY 1987 - OCTOBER 1988
• Name and address of employer Netherlands' Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis CPB
• Type of business or sector International Economics Department
• Occupation or position held Staff member
• Main activities and responsibilities International macroeconomic developments: short- and medium-term projections, analysis,
modelling and research
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2. • Dates (from – to) OCTOBER 1985 - NOVEMBER 1986
• Name and address of employer University of Warwick, UK
• Type of business or sector Parliamentary Unit
• Occupation or position held Senior Economist
• Main activities and responsibilities Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Treasury and Civil Service Committee
• Dates (from – to) JANUARY 1979 - SEPTEMBER 1985
• Name and address of employer Erasmus University Rotterdam
• Type of business or sector Faculty of Economics, Macroeconomic Policy Group
• Occupation or position held Assistant Professor
• Main activities and responsibilities Macroeconomic modelling and research
• Dates (from – to) SEPTEMBER 1977 - JULY 1978
• Name and address of employer Heymans College, Groningen
• Type of business or sector Secondary School (HAVO, VWO)
• Occupation or position held Mathematics Teacher
• Dates (from – to) AUGUST 1974 - AUGUST 1977
• Name and address of employer University of Groningen
• Type of business or sector Interfaculty of Econometrics
• Occupation or position held Student-assistent
• Main activities and responsibilities Lecturing statistics to first-year students in Economics
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
• Dates September 1989
• Name and type of organisation
providing education and training
Erasmus University Rotterdam
• Principal subjects/occupational
skills covered
Dissertation entitled "Ambition and Risk Aversion in the Design of Economic Policies"
• Title of qualification awarded PhD
• Level of national classification Dr in Economics, Promotor Prof. dr Jan Siebrand
• Dates (from - to) August 1971 - January 1979
• Name and type of organisation
providing education and training
University of Groningen, Interfaculty of Econometrics
• Principal subjects/occupational
skills covered
International Economics, Econometrics, Operations Research, Mathematics, Teaching
Certificate, Master's thesis published in Environment and Planning A, 1979, "A biparametric
approach to spatial autocorrelation" (with thesis supervisor Dr Ronald Ketellapper)
• Title of qualification awarded Master's degree in Econometrics
• Level of national classification Drs
• Dates (from - to) August 1966 - May 1971
• Name and type of organisation
providing education and training
Lienward College, Leeuwarden
• Title of qualification awarded HBS-B
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3. PERSONAL SKILLS
AND COMPETENCES
MOTHER TONGUE (FRISIAN)
DUTCH
• Reading skills excellent
• Writing skills excellent
• Verbal skills excellent
OTHER LANGUAGES
English
• Reading skills excellent
• Writing skills excellent
• Verbal skills excellent
French
• Reading skills good
• Writing skills sufficient
• Verbal skills sufficient
German
• Reading skills good
• Writing skills basic
• Verbal skills basic
Spanish
• Reading skills good
• Writing skills basic
• Verbal skills basic
SOCIAL SKILLS
AND COMPETENCES
.
- I enjoy working with colleagues from many different countries and disciplines. I maintain
good relations with my former colleagues. In DG ECFIN's Econometrics, Structural Funds and
Enlargement Units I worked with very able young European staff, for some years in a middle
management position. In my current working environment I act as a bridge between Units.
- I am able to give clear and interesting presentations of empirical findings and how they fit into
the Commission's work programme, without becoming too political or too technical. I have
participated in many conferences, including meetings of project LINK and GTAP and
ECOMOD.
- From 1995-2000, two times a year, I have given a course on European integration to young
civil servants from former Communist countries at the Joint Vienna Institute.
- I have represented the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (and later the
DG Joint Research Centre) in many conferences and interdepartmental working groups
(including President Prodi's initiative to improve European governance).
- At work as well as in sports (volleyball) I am a team-player.
ORGANISATIONAL SKILLS
AND COMPETENCES
- As acting Head of Unit or project leader I have always clearly pointed out to my colleagues
what was expected of them and when. I have an ability to recognise when people are under
stress and if so find ways to relieve the tension.
- I prefer informal contacts over long meetings but I can be an effective moderator.
- In DG ECFIN I accepted the responsibility to manage a programme of research grants
(PHARE-ACE) to the satisfaction of beneficiaries and auditors.
- I have worked with experts from different ministries in many of the (former) candidate
countries, to come to "joint assessments" of their medium-term priorities and economic policies.
- DG ECFIN was the favourite contact point of the EBRD, the World Bank and other
international organisations and I have been in regular contact with many of their staff in the
candidate countries.
- As part of my work in IPTS I have organised a number of workshops and conferences.
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4. - I have followed language and management courses
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION In 1983-1985 I worked on a project grant received from the Netherlands Organisation for the
advancement of Pure Research (ZWO)
I was selected to take part in the 1983 Young Scientists' Summer Program of the International
Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
In 1990-1994 I held a Special Professorship in the Economics of European Integration at
Erasmus University Rotterdam
I have sat on PhD Committees at the Universities of Groningen, Nijmegen, Rotterdam,
Strathclyde and Tilburg
I have acted as a referee for several scientific journals and academic publishers
The following persons can provide further references:
ANNEXES List of publications
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5. Publications
Brandsma, A.S., and R.H. Ketellapper, 1979. A biparametric approach to spatial autocorrelation, Environment and Planning
A, Volume 11, 51-58
Brandsma, A.S., and R.H. Ketellapper, 1979. Further evidence on alternative procedures for testing of autocorrelation among
regression disturbances, in C.P.A. Bartels and R.H. Ketellapper (eds.), Exploratory and Explanatory Statistical Analysis of
Spatial Data, Martinus Nijhoff, Leiden
Brandsma, A.S., and A..J. Hughes Hallett, 1982. The impact of non-causality on non-cooperative strategies for dynamic
games, Economics Letters 10, 9-15
Brandsma, A.S., and N. van der Windt, 1983. Wage bargaining and the Phillips curve: a macroeconomic view, Applied
Economics 15, 61-71
Brandsma, A.S., and A.J. Hughes Hallett, 1983. Optimal policies for interdependent economies: risk aversion and the problem
of information, in T. Basar and L.F. Pau (eds.), Dynamic Modelling and Control of National Economies, Pergamon Press, New
York
Brandsma, A.S., A.J. Hughes Hallett and N. van der Windt, 1983. Optimal control of large nonlinear models: an efficient
method of policy search applied to the Dutch economy, Journal of Policy Modeling 5, 253-270
Brandsma, A.S., and A.J. Hughes Hallett, 1983. De effectiviteit van economische sancties tegen de Sovjetunie, Economisch
Statistische Berichten 68, 524-528
Hughes Hallett, A.J., and A.S. Brandsma, 1983. How effective could sanctions against the Soviet Union be?,
Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 119, 498-522
Brandsma, A.S., A.J. Hughes Hallett and N. van der Windt, 1984. Optimal economic policies and uncertainty: the case
against policy selection by non-linear programming, Computers and Operations Research 11, 179-197
Brandsma, A.S., and A.J. Hughes Hallett, 1984. Noncausalities and time inconsistency in dynamic noncooperative games: the
problem revisited, Economics Letters 14, 123-130
Brandsma, A.S., and A.J. Hughes Hallett, 1984. Economic conflict and the solution of dynamic games, European Economic
Review 26, 13-32
Brandsma, A.S., and A.J. Hughes Hallett, 1984. Dynamic risk-sensitive optimization and von Neumann-Morgenstern decision
theory, Institute for Economic Research, Discussion Paper 8401/G, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Brandsma, A.S., and A.J. Hughes Hallett, 1984. Do economic sanctions against the Soviet Union make sense?, Interfaces 14,
53-68
Brandsma, A.S., and A.J. Hughes Hallett, 1984. How vulnerable is the Soviet economy? The effectiveness of economic
sanctions, Futures 16, 163-172
Brandsma, A.S., and N. van der Windt, 1984. Une comparaison de l'efficacité du plan d'emploi et de la coupe budgétaire aux
Pays-Bas, dans D.Vitry et B. Maréchal (eds.), Emploi-chômage: Modélisation et Analyses Quantitatives, Dijon
Brandsma, A.S., and A.J. Hughes Hallett, 1984. The structure of rational expectations behaviour in economics: an empirical
view, in J.P. Ancot (ed.), Analysing the Structure of Econometric Models, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague
Brandsma, A.S., and J.R. Pijpers, 1985. Coordinated strategies for economic cooperation between Europe and the United
States, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 121, 661-681
Brandsma, A.S., and J.C. Siebrand, 1986. Opportunisme versus rationaliteit in de economische politiek, in P. Lebelle en Sj.
Muller (eds.), Besluitvorming: Wat weten wij ervan?, Kluwer, Deventer
Brandsma, A.S., 1986. Implications of risk sensitive decision making for the design of economic policies, Journal of Economic
Dynamics and Control 10, 301-306
Brandsma, A.S., and A.J. Hughes Hallett, 1986. The coordination approach to policymaking in interdependent economies, in
P. Artus and O. Guvenen (eds), International Macroeconomic Modelling for Policy Decisions, Nijhoff, Dordrecht
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6. Brandsma, A.S., 1986. The implications of risk sensitive decision making for macroeconomic planning in the Netherlands, De
Economist 134, 59-81
Brandsma, A.S., A.J. Hughes Hallett and J. Swank, 1987. The robustness of economic policy selections and the incentive to
cooperate, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 11, 163-170
Brandsma, A.S., 1987. Risk reduction and the robustness of economic policies, in C. Carraro and D. Sartore (eds.),
Developments of Control Theory for Economic Analysis, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht
Brandsma, A.S., and J.C. Siebrand, 1987, Latent transversality conditions in macroeconomic stabilisation policies, in B.
Martos and M. Ziermann (eds.), Proceedings of the 5th
IFAC Symposium on Dynamic Modelling and Control of National
Economies, Budapest, with an extended abstract in the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 11 (1987), 235-239
Besseling, P.J., and A.S. Brandsma, 1987. Macroeconomic models and the international coordination of fiscal and monetary
policy, Research Memorandum No. 37, Central Planning Bureau, The Hague, paper presented at the Economic Modelling
Conference in the honour of Jan Tinbergen, Amsterdam, June 21-23, 1987
Brandsma, A.S., 1988. Beleid en modelbouw in het Verenigd Koninkrijk, Economisch Statistische Berichten 73, 488-491
Besseling, P.J., and A.S. Brandsma, 1988. Forecasting the world economy 1988-1992, Occasional Papers No. 43, Centraal
Planbureau, The Hague
Brandsma, A.S., G.M.M. Gelauff, B. Hanzon and A.M.A. Schrijver, 1988. Retracing the preferences behind macroeconomic
policy: the Dutch experience, De Economist 136, 468-490
(with P.B. de Ridder and P.J. Besseling) "The world economy in a macroeconomic perspective: lessons from the future" (in
Dutch), Maandschrift Economie, 52 (1988), 97-109
Brandsma, A.S., and A.J. Hughes Hallett, 1989. Macroeconomic policy design with incomplete information, Economic
Modelling Vollume 6
(with P.J. Besseling) "Dollar quo vadis: an asymmetric game between the United States and other industrialised countries",
presented at Conference on the Theory and Institutions for International Policy Coordination, Aix-en-Provence, 1989
"On the joint venture of macroeconomic policy making and control", Proceedings of the 6th IFAC Symposium on Dynamic
Modelling and Control of National Economies, Edinburgh, 27-29 June 1989
Brandsma, A.S., 1994. The Quest Model of the European Community, in S. Ichimura and Y. Matsumoto (eds.), Econometric
Models of Asian-Pacific Countries, Springer-Verlag, Tokyo
Brandsma, A.S., and A. Italianer, 1995. Shock resilience in macroeconometric models under error correction and consistent
expectations, in L. Schoonbeek, E. Sterken and S.K. Kuipers (eds.), Methods and Applications of Economic Dynamics, North-
Holland, Amsterdam
“EU-Osterweiterung: Die Erfüllung der Wirtschaftlichen Kriterien”, Austrian Foreign Trade Yearbook 1998/1999, Vienna, 1999
“The Economic Implications of EU Enlargement to Eastern Europe”, Tagungsband des Vereins für Socialpolitik 1999
“Erweiterung der EU”, Duncker & Humblot GmbH, Berlin, 2000
"Perspektiven der EU nach Reform und Erweiterung", in Handbuch Länderprofile und Marktanalysen: Perspektiven und
Risiken im internationalen Geschäftsverkehr, Schäffer-Poeschel Verlag, Stuttgart, Allgemeine Kreditversicherung
Aktiengesellschaft, Mainz, Groupe Coface, Paris, 2001
Ortega-Argilés, R. and A. Brandsma, 2010, “EU-US differences in the size of R&D intensive firms: do they explain the overall
R&D intensity gap?”, Science and Public Policy 37(6), 429-441
Brandsma, A., d’A.Kancs and P. Ciaian, 2012, “The role of additionality in the EU cohesion policies: an example of firm-level
investment support”, European Planning Studies 21, 838-853
Brandsma, A., d’A. Kancs and D. Persyn, 2014, “Modelling migration and regional labour markets: an application of the new
economic geography model RHOMOLO”, Journal of Economic Integration, Vol. 29, No. 2 (June 2014), 372-406
Brandsma, A. and d’A. Kancs, 2015, “RHOMOLO: a dynamic general equilibrium modelling approach to the evaluation of the
European Union’s R&D policies”, Regional Studies, Vol. 49, No. 8, 1340-1359
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