Wim Groot

Wim Groot has been Professor of Health Economics at the Faculty of Health Medicine and Life Sciences since 1998 and Professor of Evidence-Based Education at the School of Business and Economics since 2008, both at Maastricht University. Between 2015 and 2019, he was also Professor of Evidence-Based Education and Labour Market Policy at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Amsterdam. In 1986, he received a M.A. degree in Economics from the University of Amsterdam and in 1992, a PhD degree in Economics from the same university.
Between 2007 and 2015, he was a member of the Council of Public Health and Health Care (Raad voor de Volksgezondheid en Zorg, RVZ), the main advisory council for the minister of health in the Netherlands. Between 2016 and 2024, he was a member of the board of governance (RVT) of the Dutch Patient Federation (Patientenfederatie). Until 2023, he was a member of the Advisory Board Health Care of the ING Bank, and until 2021, he was chairman of the expert panel of the National Federation of Cancer Patient Organizations (NFK), He was a consultant for various ministries and the province of Limburg in the Netherlands and for organisations like the European Commission, OECD and the World Bank.
Currently, he is a member of the ZoNMW committees ‘Outcome-related care’ (‘Uitkomstgerichte Zorg’), ‘Outcome-related organising and paying for health care’ (‘Uitkomstgerichte Organiseren en Betalen’) and ‘Evaluation Program Doelmatigheidsonderzoek’ and a member of the NWO-Vici committee. He is a consultant for the Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation on medical education reform in the Ukraine. He is a member of the board of governance (RvT) of Serenity GGZ.
He has published more than 400 papers in international scientific journals. Until 2025, he successfully supervised more than 60 PhD students. He was a columnist for Het Financieele Dagblad, Algemeen Dagblad, Zorgvisie, Avanta en HO Management. He is currently a columnist for the Observant and frequently writes for Wynia’s Week.
In 2004, he obtained an honorary doctorate from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine.