Prof. Dr. Wynand van de Ven

After studying mathematics, Wynand P.M.M. van de Ven (1950) wrote his thesis “Studies in Health Insurance and Econometrics” at Leiden University. Since 1986 he is professor of Health Insurance at the Department Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam. In his lectures he pays attention to the way health insurance can contribute to achieving both efficiency and equity in health care. His current research activities have a strong relation with the pro-competitive reforms of the Dutch health care system. Key words of his research interest are: managed competition in health care, competitive health insurance market, adverse selection, moral hazard, (prevention of) cream skimming, risk-adjusted premium subsidies, competition policy, managed care and priority choices in health care. He has experience as a member of the board of directors of a sickness fund and two hospitals and has served as a consultant for several health care organizations. As a visiting consultant he has studied the (restructuring of the) health care systems in Chile, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, South Africa and Sweden. In recent years he has played a key role in setting up the European Risk Adjustment Network. He was Programme Director of the Master Health Economics, Policy and Law at Erasmus University and Chair of the Arrow Award Committee.