Folkert de Roos

Folkert de Roos (3 September 1920 – 12 July 2000) was a Dutch economist and Professor of Economics at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.

[1] Born in a Reformed family in Leeuwarden where his father was working as baker,[2] De Roos started to study Economics at the Netherlands School of Economics in Rotterdam late-1930s.

There he received his MA in 1942, and later in 1949 his PhD cum laude with a thesis entitled "De algemene banken in Nederland" (The general banks of the Netherlands).

[1] In 1943 De Roos had started working for the Mees & Zn back in Rotterdam, where he soon became head of the Economic Bureau.

His doctoral student were Dirk Cornelis Renooij (1951), Willem Hessel (1962), Jac Koolschijn (1970), Pieter Van Veen (1970)[3] Wouter Roes (1973), Gerrit Faber (1981), Paul Hilbers (1986) et al.