The CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis is an independent Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 government agency founded in 1945 by Jan Tinbergen

Jan Tinbergen

Jan Tinbergen , was a Dutch economist. He was awarded the first Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1969, which he shared with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes...

. It is located in The Hague

The Hague

The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...

.

It is one of three applied policy research institutes of the Dutch government, the other two being the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency

Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency

The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency is a Dutch research institute that advises the Dutch government on environmental policy and regional planning issues. The research fields include sustainable development, energy and climate change, biodiversity, transport, land use, and air quality...

 (PBL), and Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau (SCP).

The CPB delivers economic analysis and forecasts, and has as clients the Dutch Cabinet

Cabinet of the Netherlands

The cabinet of the Netherlands is the main executive body of the Dutch government. The current cabinet of the Netherlands is the Rutte cabinet.-Composition and role:...

, politicians and political parties, policy makers from ministries, labour unions, employer's organizations, etc. It also provides reports and advice for European Union

European Union

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 initiatives.

One of the government appointed members in the Social-Economic Council

Social-Economic Council

The Sociaal-Economische Raad is a major economic advisory council of the Dutch government. Formally it heads a system of sector-based regulatory organizations. It represents the social partners trade unions and employers' organizations...

 is chair of CPB.

Directors

1945 – 1955	Jan Tinbergen Jan Tinbergen Jan Tinbergen , was a Dutch economist. He was awarded the first Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1969, which he shared with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes...
1955 – 1957	Fred Polak Fred Polak Frederik Lodewijk Polak was one of the Dutch founding fathers of futures studies, perhaps best known in the field for theorising the central role of imagined alternative futures in his classic work The Image of the Future.Polak was the son of Alexander Polak, violin builder and concertmaster of...
1957 – 1966	Pieter de Wolff
1966 – 1984	Cees van den Beld
1984 – 1989	Peter de Ridder Peter de Ridder Peter de Ridder is a Dutch businessman and sailor. Born in The Hague on May 18, 1946, this amateur sailor has beaten the world’s best sailors, such as New Zealand’s Dean Barker or Russell Coutts....
1989 – 1994	Gerrit Zalm Gerrit Zalm Gerrit Zalm is a retired Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy . He served as Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister from May 27, 2003 until February 22, 2007 in the Cabinets Balkenende II and III. He served earlier as Minister of Finance in the Cabinets Kok I and...
1994 – 2006	Henk Don
2006 –	Coen Teulings