[2] He started his career at the Institute for Government Expenditure Research and received his doctor's degree in 1982 while working there.
His dissertation was titled "The realm of necessity; an analysis of the industrial business cycle in socialist Czechoslovakia".
[1] In these positions, he was involved in the nationalization of the bank ABN AMRO and the Dutch subsidiary of Fortis during the Great Recession.
[4] Gerritse left the finance ministry in May 2011 to work as the chairman of the Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM).
His duties had been taken over by a member of the executive board since June, when treatment had started for a disease in Gerritse's bone marrow.