Ronald Gerritse (22 September 1952 – 26 September 2013) was a Dutch civil servant, who served as the chair of the Authority for the Financial Markets and as

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at the

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Education and career

Gerritse was born in 1952 in the village

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in the province

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. He studied economics at the

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until 1977. He started his career at the Institute for Government Expenditure Research and received his

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in 1982 while working there. His dissertation was titled "The realm of necessity; an analysis of the industrial

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in socialist

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". Gerritse also worked for the parliamentary inquiry into shipbuilder Rijn-Schelde-Verolme. He left the institute to take a job at the

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in 1984. Three years later, Gerritse returned to the government expenditure institute to serve as its director. Afterwards, he held the position of general-secretary at the

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. He was the secretary-general of the

between February 1996 and March 2003. Gerritse became the secretary-general of the Ministry of Finance in the latter year. Besides this job, he started serving as Treasurer-General in 2008. In these positions, he was involved in the

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of the bank ABN AMRO and the Dutch subsidiary of

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during the

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. Gerritse left the finance ministry in May 2011 to work as the chairman of the Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM). Gerritse died on 26 September 2013 aged 61. His duties had been taken over by a member of the executive board since June, when treatment had started for a disease in Gerritse's

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Personal life

Gerritse was married to his wife and had two children.

References

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