Gerard P. Reesink (more commonly known as Ger Reesink) is a Dutch linguist who specializes in Papuan languages.
[1] He studied psychology at Utrecht University.
[2] He obtained his PhD in linguistics at the University of Amsterdam,[2] where he completed his dissertation Structures and their functions in Usan, a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea.
[3] In the 1990s, he researched the languages of the Bird's Head Peninsula as part of The Irian Jaya Studies: Program for Interdisciplinary Research (ISIR), which resulted in publications such as A grammar of Hatam (1999) and Languages of the eastern Bird's Head (2002).
He also dealt with Papuan-Austronesian language contact in eastern Indonesia.