Ester Barendregt leads the Netherlands, Economics and Sustainability team at RaboResearch. As chief economist, with this team, she develops and communicates the view of RaboResearch on the (Dutch) economy.

Ester has twenty years of experience in the financial sector and in the public sector. In 2015 she joined Rabobank as an economist. Before, she worked at the Netherlands Ministry of Finance and at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC. She was educated in international economics at Maastricht University, including one year of political science at the Institute of Sciences Po(litiques) in Paris.