Bas van Leeuwen

Senior Researcher

Born in 1978, masters in Dutch Law, European and International Law, Economic History and Russian History at Utrecht University. Obtained his PhD on human capital and growth in the 19th and 20th century Southeast Asia at the International Intsitute of Social History/Utrecht University.

Editor of the Quantitative History of China series (i.e. historical statistics).
Project leader of a 5-year ERC project on regional industrialization in Northwestern Europe and China, ca. 1800-present.
Fields of interest: price volatility, markets, human capital, national accounts, industrialization between ca. 500 BC and the present.

PublicationsBas van Leeuwen – Research output — Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)

ISH Staff | Bas van Leeuwen | Photo by Martin van Welzen