Career
Sandee received his Engineering degree and was associated with the Statistics Netherlands late 1940s. In the 1950s he moved to the Dutch Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis. He was Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963, and in 1965 was appointed Professor of Econometrics at the Netherlands School of Economics.
In 1965 Sandee was elected fellow of the Econometric Society.
From 1966 until 1971 he also was director of the Econometric Institute after Henri Theil, and succeeded by Willem Somermeyer. Among his doctoral students were A. Kunstman (1971), Knights of Pythias Vishwakarma (1971) and Guus Holtgrefe (1975).