Laurens de Haan is a Dutch economist and Emeritus Professor of Probability and Mathematical Statistics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, specializing in extreme value theory.
Education
Born in Rotterdam, De Haan received his Master of Arts in Mathematics from the University of Amsterdam in 1966, and his Doctor of Philosophy Mathematics in 1970 under supervision of Johannes Runnenburg for the thesis "On regular variation and sample extremes". He was awarded a Doctor honoris causa from the Universidade de Lisboa in 2000 and the Medallion lecture at the Indian Medical Service annual meeting in Gothenburg in 2000.
Career
De Haan started his academic career in 1966 as researcher probability and statistics at the Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam. In the year 1971-1972 he was Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University. In 1977 he was appointed Professor of Probability and Mathematical Statistics at the Erasmus Universiteit, where he stayed until his retirement in 1998.
From 1990 to 1992 he was Associate Dean of the School of Economics.
From 2008 to 2011 he was part-time Professor of Statistics at the University of Tilburg. In 1977 he was elected Fellow I.M.S, and he was Guest Professor at the Peking University in 1994.