The institute was founded in 1987 and is named after the Dutch economist Jan Tinbergen, a Nobel Prize-winning professor at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
The Tinbergen Institute has over 200 research fellows from the three participating Universities, and some 190 PhD students.
It is ranked 2nd among the World's Top Financial Economics and Finance Departments according to IDEAS/RePEc.
Awarded Honorary Fellow of the Tinbergen Institute are Mars Cramer, Teun Kloek, Jean Paelinck, Herman K. van Dijk, Bernard van Praag and Henk Tijms.
Bernard van Praag (Chairman); Frans van Winden; Peter Nijkamp; Jean-Marie Viaene; Jaap Spronk; Henk Jager