Prof. Dr. Nicolaas Jacob Arnold van Exel
Prof. Dr. Jacob van Exel is Professor of Economics at Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management of Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is also head of the Department of Health Economics and co-director of the Erasmus Choice Modelling Centre. He started his professional career as a consultant in transportation at the Netherlands Economic Institute (1995-2000), focusing on the economic evaluation of investments in transport infrastructure, the pricing of mobility, and the analysis of travel behaviour. Next, he joined the Institute for Medical Technology Assessment as senior researcher (2000-2006), focusing on the economic evaluation of new pharmaceuticals, treatment strategies and organisation of health and social care.
Since 2006, he is affiliated with Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, with several leadership roles in research, teaching, and management. In 2016, he was appointment as Professor at Erasmus School of Economics, and in 2020, he was appointed as Professor at Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management. His research and teaching focus on the improvement of methods for economic evaluations in health and social care and the analysis of preferences and behaviours is the context of health.
He also has worked on methods for involving citizens and patients in decision making in the healthcare sector. Recent work is focused on the connection between climate change and health. Over the past 20 years, he has collaborated with academic and non-academic partners in national and international research projects and networks, and he has initiated several multi-disciplinary collaborations, most recently with Technical University Delft. To date, he has published over 200 scientific papers and has successfully supervised 16 PhD students (and 10 ongoing).
