Daan van Soest is an environmental economist who focuses on using behavioral insights and (field-) experimental methods to assess and improve the effectiveness of environmental policy making – in developed countries, and also in developing countries. 

Appointments:

• Since September 2013: Professor of Environmental Economics, Tilburg University;
• January 2009 - August 2013: Professor of Environmental Economics at VU University Amsterdam (0.6 fte);
• June 2006 - August 2013: Associate Professor, Tilburg University (0.4 fte from Jan. 1, 2009, onwards);
• July 1998 - May 2006: Assistant Professor at Tilburg University (tenured since Jan. 1, 2004);
• October 1997 - June 1998:Economic Advisor to the General Secretary of ATIBT, Association Technique des Bois Tropicaux, Paris. Coordination of sustainable forest management projects in tropical rainforests;
• September 1993 - September 1997: Ph.D. student at the Faculty of Economics at Groningen University (The Netherlands).

Management:

• Co-head of department, Department of Economics, Tilburg University (2021-);
• Academic director, Tilburg Sustainability Center (2013-2020);
• Chair (2006–2010) and member (2003–2006), Educational Board of the BSc and MSc of Economics, and of the BSc and MSc of International Economics and Finance, Tilburg University.

Editorial services:

• Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Resource and Energy Economics (2015–);
• Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Environmental and Resource Economics (2013–);
• Co–editor–in–chief, Resource and Energy Economics (January 2012 – August 2015);
• Co–editor, Environmental and Resource Economics (2007–2013).

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(Co)supervisor of PhD theses:

• Mirthe Boomsma (with B. Vollaard; defended September 8, 2021);
• Julius Rüschenpöhler (with P.S. Dalton; defended January 14, 2019);
• Rahel Kitessa (with E.C.M. van der Heijden; May 22, 2018);
• Justin Dijk (with J.H. Ansink; July 2, 2015);
• Haki Pamuk (with E,H. Bulte; September 9, 2014);
• Jan Stoop (with Ch. Noussair; March 16, 2011);
• Andries Richter (with J. Grasman; March 4, 2011);
• Jetske Bouma (with A.J. de Zeeuw and E.H. Bulte; February 1, 2008).