Heleen Mees

Heleen Mees ( born Heleen Nijkamp, * 1968 in Hengelo ) is a Dutch economist, journalist and lawyer. In 2002 she changed her birth name in New York Nijkamp to Mees. She has worked professionally in the U.S. and in the Netherlands.

Mees is co-founder of the Dutch Foundation Women on Top, which calls for more women in top positions and is committed to a feminization of poverty. Together with Mirjam van Tiel she manages the Foundation.

Professional activity

Mees is in New York as a consultant and lobbyist in matters concerning the European Union operates. She maintains a bi-weekly column in the NRC Handelsblad.

In 2009, she worked as a master of ceremonies at the Dutch broadcasting company VARA. She is a regular guest at the panel of economists BNR Nieuws Radio.

Mees has published in international newspapers such as The International Herald Tribune, Le Monde, The Financial Times and The Japan Times, as well as at Project Syndicate. [ P 1 ]

From 2005 she worked on campaigns of Hillary Clinton.

In the fall of 2009, she was hired as a researcher at the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) at Erasmus University Rotterdam on the topic of the influence of China's monetary policy in an increasingly globalized world economy.

Work

Her second, published in April 2007 Book way met het deeltijdfeminisme! ( " Down with the part-time feminism! " ) Deals critically with the designated as Third Wave Feminism approach the women's movement. It describes the spread in the Netherlands and a half earner model as a " telltale mixture" of traditional role models and a dash of feminism; in reality deceiving women with only one fifth of household income and the Netherlands held with 7% of women in board positions internationally the last rank position held, jointly with Pakistan.

Their third, published in April 2009 book Between Greed And Desire - The World Between Wall Street And Main Street ( "Between greed and desire - The world between Wall Street and Main Street" ) deals with globalization, the financial crisis and the situation in New York. Mees argues that although greed of economic harm, but the desire for a better life is the driving force of social progress. It considers that European welfare states should be converted into opportunity-oriented companies. As a model, it leads to New York.

In their contributions to Project Syndicate Helen Mees deals with the concept of affirmative action, which could also meet in Europe a social division of populations effectively. [ P 2 ] It shall be guided a gender policy focus through their comparisons of the working hours of European and American women [ p 3 ] as well as their consideration of the economic impact of the glass ceiling and the gender gap. [ 4 p ] [p 5] also deals with the rape in war [ p 6 ] and supports the call for the punishment for prostitution after the Swedish model of prostitutes to relocate to the suitors. [ p 7 ]

Publications

  • Heleen Mees: chicks hebzucht en require - De wereld en het grote money, Nieuw Amsterdam, 2009, ISBN 978-90-468-0572-5 ( Between Greed And Desire - The World Between Wall Street And Main Street, April 2009)
  • Heleen Mees: Way met het deeltijdfeminisme! Nieuw Amsterdam, April 2007, ISBN 978-90-468-0214-4
  • Willem Vermeend, Han Kogel, Heleen Mees: Compendium van het Europees belasting rather, Kluwer juridically, 2002, ISBN 978-90-200-2435-7
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