Background
Robert Van Straelen was born in Borgerhout to Paul Verstraelen, Director of the Banque Belgolaise in Antwerp, and Leopoldina Vinsolest from Borgerhout.
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Robert Straelen
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Van Straelen attended the Saint Edmondus Institute in Antwerp, and the Saint January Berchmanscollege. There in 1968 he was granted a colloquium doctum and in 1971 received his Doctor of Philosophy in Economics with a thesis entitled "Prijsontwikkeling en produktiestructuur: proeve tot formulering van een stochastisch model voor produktiecoëfficiënten.".
Career
In 1952 he started to study at the Sint-Ignatius Handelshogeschool (later part of the University of Antwerp), where in 1957 he received his degree cum laude. In 1958 he received an other degree and a Special Licence at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. In 1959 Van Straelen started his career in industry as business economist at a chemical company in Antwerp.
In 1961 he started as director of the new department of econometrics at the Sint-Ignatius Handelshogeschool.
Later he was appointed Professor at the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Antwerp and at the Antwerp Management School. There in 1996 he initiated a study of Real estate.
Van Straelen was elected fellow at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
Achievements
Membership
In 1963 he also succeeded Vic van Rompuy as lecturer, and was appointed member of the Federal Planning Bureau in Brussels.
