Victor Halberstadt (born June 16, 1939) is a Dutch economist.

Biography

Halberstadt was born on June 16, 1939, in

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. He was raised in a Jewish family and experienced the terrors of the Holocaust. From 1965 to 1974, Halberstadt was a senior lecturer of public sector finance at the

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. From 1971 to 1973 he was an adviser of the Directorate-General of the National Budget of the Dutch Ministry of Finance. On September 9, 1974, he was appointed professor of public sector finance of the University of Leiden. In October 1981, he was along with economist Cees de Galan appointed an informer to mediate the 1981 Dutch Cabinet crisis. Halberstadt has held several positions, including Crown Member of the Social-Economic Council (1972–2004), honorary secretary-general of the Bilderberg Group (1980–2000), president of the International Institute of Public Finance (1987–1990), director of Concertgebouw (1988–2011), member of the faculty of the

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(1990–), member of the international advisory board of

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(1991–), chairman of the Daimler-Chrysler international advisory board (1995–2005), member of the board of trustees of

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(2003–), member of the board of trustees of the

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(2005–), and member of the board of trustees of the Boekman Foundation (2009–). Since 1990, Halberstadt has been a Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion. He is a member of the steering committee of the Bilderberg Group.

Philanthropy

Halberstadt is a member of the board of directors of the

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(ICMEC), a global nonprofit organization that combats

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, and child abduction.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Halberstadt, Victor 1939 births Living people Dutch economists University of Amsterdam faculty Leiden University faculty DaimlerChrysler Goldman Sachs people Members of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group Knights of the Order of the Netherlands Lion