Eduard Bomhoff

Eduard Jan Bomhoff (born 30 September 1944) is a Dutch Economist and Academic, and was Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport and Deputy Prime Minister in the First Balkenende cabinet.
Personal life
Bomhoff was born in Amsterdam and lived there until 1957, when his family moved to Leiden. His father was a minister and, later, a professor of literature.
Bomhoff attended the Stedelijk Gymnasium Leiden and went to university in the same city. After earning his doctorate in economics from the Netherlands School of Economics (now the Erasmus University), Bomhoff worked as a lecturer in monetary policy there. He earned the rank of professor in 1981, and served as director of the Rochester-Erasmus Executive MBA program from 1986 to 1989. He later served as a professor of finance at the Nyenrode Business University.
In addition to his academic career, Bomhoff founded the NYFER institute in 1995, an economic research institute designed as an...