Richard Thomas Griffiths (7 April 1948) is an English-Dutch historian[1][2] who was professor of economic and social history at Leiden University.
[citation needed] In 1977 he received his PhD from the University of Cambridge with a thesis titled: "Industrial retardation in the Netherlands 1830-1850".
From 1980 to 1987 he was professor of Social and Economic History at the Free University, Amsterdam.
In 1995 he became Professor of Economic and Social History at Leiden University[3] where he also set up the MA in European Union Studies.
[4] He is currently director of the BA in International Studies, taught at the university’s campus in the Hague.