Prof. dr. A.C. Hemerijck (Anton)
- Telephone:+31 20 59 86700
- Room nr:z-116
- E-mail:a.c.hemerijck@vu.nl
- Unit:faculteit der sociale wetenschappen (faculteitsbestuur fsw)
- Position:Dean
Anton Hemerijck (1958) is the dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the VU University Amsterdam, and vice rector. Between 2001 and 2009 he was director of the Netherlands Council for Government Policy (WRR). In that period he also held a chair in Comparative European Social Policy, Department of Public Administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He studied economics at Tilburg University (1979-1986). He obtained his doctorate from Oxford University in 1993.
He publishes widely on issues comparative social and economic policy and institutional policy analysis. Between 1997 and 2000 he was a senior researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies, working on the large comparative project on Welfare and Work in the Open Economy, directed by Fritz W. Scharpf and Vivien A. Schmidt. He has also been involved in drafting reports on social policy for Portuguese (2000), Belgian (2001), Greek (2003), Finnish (2006), German (2007) and Portuguese (2007) presidencies of the EU.
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 Univeristy Press, 2002). Forthcoming is his monograph 'Changing Welfare States' (Oxford University Press, 2011).
CV Anton Hemerijck October 2010
