Heleen Mees

Heleen Mees

Heleen Mees (born Heleen Nijkamp , * 1968 in Hengelo ) is a Dutch economist , publicist and lawyer . In 2002 she changed her maiden name Nijkamp to Mees in New York . She works in the USA and the Netherlands.

Professional activities

Mees is co-founder of the Dutch foundation Women on Top , which calls for more women in top positions and works against the feminization of poverty. This foundation ended its work in 2011.

Mees has worked in New York as an advisor and lobbyist on matters affecting the European Union . She maintained a bi-weekly column in the NRC Handelsblad .

From May to December 2009 she regularly took part in a television talk show , Vrouw en Paard [Woman and Horse], on the Dutch broadcaster VARA . In this talk show, five women discussed current affairs. She was also a regular guest on the economists panel of BNR Nieuwsradio .

Mees has published in international newspapers such as The International Herald Tribune and The Financial Times , as well as with Project Syndicate .

From 2005 to 2008 she worked for Hillary Clinton's campaigns .

In autumn 2009 she was engaged as a researcher at the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) at the Erasmus University Rotterdam on the topic of the influence of China's monetary policy in an increasingly globalizing world economy. She received her PhD in economics in 2012. Her dissertation dealt with the question of whether there is a decisive influence of China's economic growth on the development of the credit crisis, and presented this as very likely. From September 2012 to July 2013, Mees was an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public service of the University of New York .

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Her first book Weg met het deeltijdfeminisme! Was published in April 2007 . (“Get rid of part-time feminism !”) Critically deals with the approach of the women's movement called Third Wave Feminism . She describes the widespread one -and- a -half wage earner model in the Netherlands as a “treacherous mixture” of traditional role models and a pinch of feminism; In reality, women only contribute a fifth of household income and the Netherlands, with 7% women in executive board positions, held last place internationally, together with Pakistan.

Her second book, Tussen hebzucht en require - De wereld en het grote geld (“Between greed and desire - The world and high finance”) , published in April 2009, deals with globalization, the financial crisis and the conditions in New York. Mees argues that while greed harms the economy, the desire for a better life is the driving force behind social progress. She takes the view that European welfare states should be transformed into opportunity-oriented societies. As a model, she cites New York.

In her contributions to Project Syndicate, Helen Mees deals with the concept of affirmative action , which could also effectively counter a social division of population groups in Europe. She places a gender-political focus through her comparisons of the working hours of European and American women as well as her consideration of the economic consequences of the glass ceiling and the gender gap . She also addresses rape in war and supports the demand that the punishment for prostitution should be shifted from prostitutes to suitors based on the Swedish model .

Publications

• Heleen Mees: The Chinese Birdcage. How China's Rise Almost Toppled the West . London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. ISBN 978-1-137-58885-2
• Heleen Mees: Changing Fortunes - How China's Boom Caused the Financial Crisis (Dissertation Erasmus University Rotterdam) Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), 2012, ISBN 978-90-5892-311-0
• Heleen Mees: Tussen hebzucht en ask - De wereld en het grote geld , Nieuw Amsterdam, 2009, ISBN 978-90-468-0572-5
• Heleen Mees: Weg met het deeltijdfeminisme! Nieuw Amsterdam, April 2007, ISBN 978-90-468-0214-4
• Willem Vermeend, Han Kogels, Heleen Mees: Compendium van het Europees ladenrecht , Kluwer juridisch, 2002, ISBN 978-90-200-2435-7

Web links

• Heleen Mees NYU Wagner ( Memento from September 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
• Heleen Mees Bibliography ( Memento of July 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
• Going Dutch? Not so fast! New York Times

Individual evidence

General

1. ↑ "In New York, Heleen Mees cooks for 50 dollars an other aft. "Mees sounds like mooi met al die long ee´s in mijn naam." "(In New York Heleen Mees bought another surname for 50 dollars." Mees just sounds nice with all the long ee´s in my name. ". ) In: Ambtieuze powerfeministe met extreme meningen. (PDF; 249 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 11, 2011 ; Retrieved June 6, 2010 (Dutch). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Heleen Mees and Mirjam van Tiel in: Wie zin wij? - Women on Top . Both accessed on June 6, 2010 (Dutch)
3. ↑ ^{a b} Heleen Mees. In: personal homepage. Retrieved June 6, 2010 . 
4. ↑ Heleen Mees. (No longer available online.) VARA, archived from the original on May 8, 2009 ; Retrieved June 13, 2010 (Dutch). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ^ Heleen Mees appointed as researcher at ESE. (No longer available online.) Erasmus University Rotterdam, October 22, 2009, archived from the original on October 25, 2009 ; accessed on June 13, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Weg met het deeltijdfeminisme. Seed vatting. (No longer available online.) Nieuw Amsterdam, archived from the original on March 18, 2014 ; Retrieved June 13, 2010 (Dutch). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Tussen hebzucht en demand - De wereld en het grote geld . Quoted from: Heleen Mees. In: personal homepage. Retrieved June 6, 2010 . 

Project Syndicate

1. ↑ Heleen Mees. (No longer available online.) Project Syndicate, archived from the original on Aug. 21, 2010 ; accessed on June 6, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Heleen Mees, Rick van der Ploeg: Affirmative Action for Europe. Project Syndicate, December 2, 2005, accessed June 6, 2010 . 
3. ^ Heleen Mees: Europe's leisure trap. Project Syndicate, June 23, 2006, accessed June 6, 2010 . 
4. ↑ Heleen Mees: Break through the glass ceiling. Project Syndicate, January 31, 2007, accessed June 6, 2010 . 
5. ↑ Heleen Mees: The Costs of the Gender Gap. Project Syndicate, August 29, 2007, accessed June 6, 2010 . 
6. ↑ Heleen Mees, Femke van Zeijl: Wars against women. Project Syndicate, May 26, 2008, accessed June 6, 2010 . 
7. ↑ Heleen Mees: Does the legalization of prostitution work? Project Syndicate, January 23, 2009, accessed June 6, 2010 .