Nicolaas Pierson

His Excellency Nicolaas Pierson
Prime Minister of the Netherlands
In office 27 July 1897 – 1 August 1901
Monarch	Wilhelmina
Regent	Emma (1897-1898)
Preceded by	Joan Röell
Succeeded by	Abraham Kuyper
Minister of Finance
In office 21 August 1891 – 9 May 1894
Prime Minister	Gijsbert van Tienhoven
Preceded by	Karel Antonie Godin de Beaufort
Succeeded by	Jacobus Petrus Sprenger van Eyk
Personal details
Born	Nicolaas Gerard Pierson (1839-02-07)7 February 1839 Amsterdam, Netherlands
Died	24 December 1909(1909-12-24) (aged 70) Heemstede, Netherlands
Political party	Liberal
Spouse	Catharina Rutgera Waller
Alma mater	University of Leiden University of Cambridge
Occupation	Economist

Nicolaas Gerard Pierson (7 February 1839 – 24 December 1909) was a Dutch economist and Liberal statesman who served as the chairman of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) of the Netherlands from 1897 until 1901.^[1]

Pierson was a professor economics and statistics at the University of Amsterdam and director and presiding director (president-directeur) of the De Nederlandsche Bank, the Dutch national bank. He was minister of Finance in the Cabinet Van Tienhoven. During his term of office he introduced an important tax revision. After serving as chairman of the Council of Ministers for four years he took a seat in the House of Representatives for the constituency of Gorinchem from 1905 to 1909. Pierson received an honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge.