Hans Schenk (economist)

E.J.J. (Hans) Schenk is a Dutch professor emeritus of economics and fellow of the Tjalling C. Koopmans Research Institute at Utrecht University’s School (NE) of Economics (USE) of which he was founding director. He was a Crown-appointed independent member of the Social and Economic Council SER of the Netherlands from 2010 until 2018. With other financial economics specialists, and help of Triodos Bank, he founded the Sustainable Finance Lab in 2011.
Before accepting the professorship at USE, he was a professor of economics and business at Tilburg University (NE) and an associate professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam (NE) and the University of Groningen (NE).
Biography.
Work.
Schenk graduated from the University of Oregon (US), obtained his MBA in the collaborative Leuven/Cornell programme and his doctorate in economics from Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis (FR). He has held chairs at several foreign institutions, among which the China-Europe Management Institute in Beijing and Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg (FR). He was a fellow of the Centre for International Business and Management when it was at Cambridge University between 2005-2015, after which he became an academic associate .
He was a consultant to multinational enterprises, employers’ federations as well as trade unions, the United Nations, the Dutch and English parliaments, the European Commission, and the governments of the Netherlands, Vietnam and South Africa. He directed the family business firm in Maastricht (NE) for five years and acts on various supervisory boards.
He has been chief advisor to the Royal Dutch Economic Society and is an associate editor of the "International Journal of the Economics of Business" and the "International Review of Applied Economics."
"The Economist" qualified him as “the internationally most reputable Dutch economist” in 1993. He was a nominated recipient of Le Monde's Science Award in 1998 while Edward Elgar's Who's Who in the Management Sciences (2000) selected him as one of seven Dutch entries among the world's 350 leading business scholars.
His work is being quoted frequently in Dutch newspapers while he appeared regularly on radio and TV news programmes. Abroad, he was interviewed for media such as Canadian Public TV, Newsweek, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, and the China Business Times.
Schematic view.
Education.
Economics as well as business at Nyenrode University (NL), University of Oregon (US); MBA from University of Leuven (B); Economics doctorate from Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis (F)
Miscellaneous.
Acted as consultant to multinational enterprises, Dutch ministries, the governments of Vietnam and South Africa, UNCTAD, UNI-Europa, trade unions, and employers' federations. Past member of the Industrial Policy Committee of the SER and various other official committees. Organiser of several conferences, most recently on ‘Governance of the Modern Firm'. Led the academic supporting team of the De Wit Committee of the Dutch Parliament which studied the causes of, and policy responses to the Great Financial Crisis of 2008.