Norman Dytianquin joined the MERIT/UNU-INTECH PhD programme in Economics and Policy Studies of Technical Change in 1997. He completed his M.A. in Development Studies at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Netherlands in 1989 where he graduated with distinction and won the Best Research Paper Award for his thesis entitled " The Economics of Debt-Equity Swaps: An Empirical Investigation on the Macroeconomic Impact and Critical Analysis of the Effectiveness of the Philippine Debt-Equity Conversion Programme in External Debt Management". He also has a Masters in Business Administration from the Ateneo Graduate School of Business and a Masters in Applied Business Economics from the University of Asia and the Pacific both in Manila, Philippines.

Norman's professional experience includes three years in commercial banking covering account management, treasury operations, and credit appraisal; ten years in central banking in the fields of financial programming, money supply management, balance of payments forecasting, and macroeconometric modelling; and six years in development banking with a multilateral financial institution (Asian Development Bank) in the fields of strategic policy and planning, and project postevaluation. This is also supported by more than ten years of academic experience as lecturer in a number of universities in Metro Manila, Philippines covering subjects such as macroeconomics, microeconomics, money and banking, international trade and finance, public finance, econometrics, managerial economics, history of economic thought, and corporate planning.

Norman is an Economics tutor at the University of Maastricht, and lecturer at the Maastricht School of Management and Centre for European Studies in the areas of economics, computer applications, and international management.