Eric Bartelsman is professor of Economics at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.

He studied economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his PhD from Columbia University. He has served as economist at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington DC, as advisor to the CPB, Netherlands, and as head of the economic research department at the Ministry of Economic Affairs in the Netherlands.

His research interests focus on the sources of productivity growth, both from a micro and macro point of view, and he has published extensively on these topics. Recently, his work is on international comparisons of the productivity and resource reallocation at the firm-level.

Bartelsman is a Fellow of the Tinbergen Institute, and a consortium partner in the EU 6th Framework program EU KLEMS. In 2007, he was appointed member of the Netherlands Council of Economic Advisors (REA). In 2007, he joined IZA, the Institute for the Study of Labor, based in Bonn, as a Research Fellow.