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Jan

Tinbergen (/ˈtɪnbɜːrɡən/; Dutch: [ˈtɪnˌbɛrɣə(n)]; April 12, 1903 – June 9, 1994) was

a Dutch economist who was awarded the

first Nobel

Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969, which he shared

with Ragnar Frisch for

having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes. He is widely considered to be one of the most

influential economists of the 20th century and one of the founding fathers

of econometrics. It has

been argued that the development of the first macroeconometric models,

the solution of the identification problem, and the understanding of dynamic

models are his three most important legacies to econometrics. Tinbergen was

a founding trustee of Economists for Peace and

Security. In 1945, he founded the Bureau for

Economic Policy Analysis (CPB) and was the agency's first

director. Tinbergen was the eldest of five children of Dirk Cornelis Tinbergen

and Jeannette van Eek. His brother Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen would

also win a Nobel Prize (for physiology,

during 1973) for his work in ethology, while his youngest brother Luuk would become a famous ornithologist. Jan and Nikolaas Tinbergen are the only

siblings to have both won Nobel Prizes. Between 1921 and 1925, Tinbergen studied mathematics and physics at the University of Leiden under Paul Ehrenfest. During those years at Leiden he had numerous

discussions with Ehrenfest, Kamerlingh Onnes, Hendrik Lorentz, Pieter Zeeman, and Albert Einstein. After

graduating, Tinbergen fulfilled his community service in the administration of

a prison in Rotterdam and at the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) in The

Hague. He then returned to the University of Leiden and

in 1929 defended his PhD thesis titled

"Minimumproblemen in de natuurkunde en de economie" (Minimisation

problems in Physics and Economics). This topic was suggested by Ehrenfest and

allowed Tinbergen to combine his interests in mathematics, physics, economics

and politics. At that time, CBS established a new department of business

surveys and mathematical statistics, and Tinbergen became its first chairman,

working at CBS until 1945. Access to the vast CBS data helped Tinbergen in

testing his theoretical models. In parallel, starting from 1931 he was

professor of statistics at the University of Amsterdam,

and in 1933 he was appointed associate professor of mathematics and statistics

at The Netherlands School of

Economics, Rotterdam, where he stayed until 1973. From

1929 to 1945 he worked for the Dutch statistical office and briefly served as consultant

to the League of Nations (1936–1938).

In 1945 he became the first director of the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis and left

this position in 1955 to focus on education. He spent one year as a visiting

professor at the Harvard University and

then returned to the Dutch Economic Institute (the successor of the Netherlands

School of Economics). In parallel, he provided consulting services to

international organizations and governments of various developing countries,

such as United Arab Republic, Turkey, Venezuela, Surinam, Indonesia and

Pakistan. Tinbergen became a member of the Royal

Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1946. He was

also a member of the International

Academy of Science, Munich. In 1956 he founded the Econometric Institute at

the Erasmus Universiteit

Rotterdam together with Henri Theil, who also was his successor in Rotterdam. In 1960 he was elected as a Fellow of

the American Statistical Association. The Tinbergen Institute was

named in his honour. The International

Institute of Social Studies (ISS) awarded its Honorary

Fellowship to Jan Tinbergen in 1962. In 1968, he received an honorary doctorate

from Sir George Williams

University, which later became Concordia University.