• 1981
  Completed secondary education, Visser ’t Hooft Lyceum, Leiden
• 1987
  General Economics, VU Amsterdam university
• 1992
  PhD in Economics, VU Amsterdam university

• 1992
  Various positions at the Ministry of Economic Affairs
• 1998
  Part-time director of the Research Centre for Financial Economic Policy at Erasmus University Rotterdam
• 1999
  Vice-director of the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis
• 2001
  Director of the General Economic Policy Department at the Ministry of Economic Affairs; from 2004, Director-General for Economic Policy; from 2010, Director-General for Energy, Telecommunications and Markets
• 2011-2018
  Treasurer-General at the Ministry of Finance
• From January 2018
  Chair of the high-level working group in Brussels which prepares the monthly Eurogroup meetings
• 29 January 2020 – 10 January 2022
  State Secretary for Tax Affairs and the Tax Administration in the third Rutte government
• 10 January 2022
  Appointed State Secretary for the Extractive Industries in the fourth Rutte government

Hans Vijlbrief has held a range of outside positions:

• 2000-2010
  Endowed professor in economic policy at VU Amsterdam
• 2017
  Co-author of the D66 election manifesto for the general election
• 2018 – January 2020
  Endowed professor in European economic and financial policy at the University of Amsterdam