Ton van Rietbergen
Ton van Rietbergen studied Social Geography of Developing Countries. After a short period at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he has worked as a lecturer-researcher at the Faculty of Geographical Sciences of Utrecht University since 1986. Initially focusing mainly on commuter mobility issues, he wrote dozens of articles about, amongst others, the traffic jam problem and the vast sums of money spent on the express tram to the Uithof. Gradually, he focused more on economic geography and in particular the pros and cons of globalization. He obtained his doctorate in 1999 with a dissertation on the internationalization of the insurance sector, which was soon followed by the publication of the book Internationalisering van de dienstensector (Internationalization of the Service Sector), with Jeroen Bosman and Marc de Smidt. Since 2002 he has been involved in updating and renewing Dynamics in Economic Geography (4th ed., 2023). His other publications include Globalisering: ramp of redding? (Globalization: Disaster or salvation?) (2020) and Alles in Drievoud, a personal account about his triplets, as well as numerous articles in Dutch newspapers, such as de Volkskrant, NRC Handelsblad, Algemeen Dagblad en Trouw.