Ben Kriechel is researcher at the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA). He has been project leader for several labour market research projects both nationally and internationally. He is involved in the national skills-forecasts for the Netherlands, and participates in a European Network for skills forecasting. Within the medium-term forecast of occupation skill needs, he was responsible for the replacement demand module. He has taught courses on Personnel Economics, Health Economics and Research Methodology.

Ben Kriechel graduated (‘cum laude’) from Maastricht University, where he also obtained his PhD. His PhD research focused on large scale displacement of workers combining firm-level and survey data. He has been visiting Brandeis University, the NORC at the University of Chicago, and the IZA in Bonn. He has worked on topics in personnel economics, worker displacement, labour mobility and manpower forecasting. He is a fellow of the research school METEOR (Maastricht) and the IZA (Bonn).