Jo Ritzen

- Dissertation received prize for best Dutch disseration 1973-1977 (Winkler Prins Prize)
-Lecturer Berkeley, Economics of Education
- Chief Systems Analysis, Social and Cultural Planning Office, the Netherlands
- Professor of Economics of Education, Nijmegen
- Professor of Public Economics, Erasmus University
- Longest serving Minister of Education, Culture and Science in EU (in the Netherlands; almost nine years).
- Vice President the World Bank, Research and Human Development