Ferry Philipsen is a senior economist and heads presently ECORYS Macroeconomics and Public Finance Management Group within the Division of Macro and Sector Policies. He has professional experience of more than 15  years.

Starting in the Netherlands Ministry of Education, he has worked for a central university in Rotterdam and Moscow and for Ministries of Finance in a number of accession countries (through long term assignments). He has extensive knowledge and experience in economics and public finance, public sector reform, budget reform, public finance management, public expenditure reviews, intergovernmental fiscal relations, costing and evaluations.

Ferry Philipsen has extensive experience in institutional and change management aspects of improving public sector management in ministries of finance and sectoral ministries through his involvement in large projects in Bulgaria, Latvia, Slovakia and Russia. He was involved as Team leader and budgeting advisor in a World Bank supported Budget reform project in Slovakia in 2004 and 2005. For the Slovak Ministry of Finance he developed detailed training manuals for future trainers and provided on-the-job training to officials of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Education. In Bulgaria Mr. Philipsen developed training courses for the Public Finance Management School.

He has outstanding skills and know how in development, organization and provision of interactive training courses. Throughout his work he has always used a coaching approach of “engaging” many civil servants.