Mr Anton Hemerijck
Mr Anton Hemerijck (1958) is Dean of the Faculty of the Social Sciences and Professor of Institutional Policy Analysis at the VU University Amsterdam. Trained as an economist and political scientist, he obtained his doctorate from Oxford University in 1993.
Between 2001 and 2009, he was Director of the Netherlands’ Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR), the principle government think tank in the Netherlands. Before that he was a senior researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies and Professor of Comparative European Social Policy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Over the past decade he also advised the European Commission and several presidencies on EU social policy.
Important publications include 'A Dutch Miracle' with Jelle Visser (Amsterdam University Press, 1997) and 'Why We Need a New Welfare State' with Gosta Esping Andersen, Duncan Gallie and John Myles (Oxford University Press, 2002).
Email: a.c.hemerijck[at]vu.nl