PROF. DR.             MARTIJN J. BURGER

Martijn Burger is Academic Director at the Erasmus Happiness Economics Research Organisation (EHERO), Erasmus University Rotterdam, Professor of Happiness Economics in the Faculty of Management Studies at the Open University of the Netherlands, and guest researcher at the Department of Applied Economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics (cum laude) from the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Most of his current research focuses on happiness economics and urban and regional economics, including geography of happiness, worker well-being, and institutional and social conditions for economic development. In addition, he is associate director of the Globalization and World Cities Network (GaWC) Research Network, associate editor of the International Journal of Community Wellbeing, and member of the board of the Dutch Regional Science Association and International Society for Quality of Life Studies.