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| Heleen Mees | |
|---|---|
| Born | Heleen Nijkamp 1968 (age 56–57) Hengelo, Overijssel, Netherlands |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Website | www |
Heleen Mees (born Heleen Nijkamp, 1968, Hengelo) is a Dutch opinion writer, economist and lawyer. She has been credited as being a third wave feminist.
Biography
Mees graduated in Economy and Law at University of Groningen. From 1992 to 1998, Mees worked for the Dutch Treasury in The Hague, two years as spokeswoman for former State Secretary Willem Vermeend. Mees was an employee of the European Commission in Brussels from 1998 to 2000. In 2000 she emigrated to the USA, where she changed her surname from Nijkamp to Mees.
In New York Mees was initially employed as a European affairs consultant for Ernst & Young, although her contract was not renewed. Instead of returning to the Netherlands, Mees worked as an independent consultant on European affairs, and started writing for the Dutch daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad.
Mees' breakthrough as an opinion writer in the Netherlands came in 2006 when she wrote The time is long overdue that women should go to work, her first feminist opinion piece in NRC Handelsblad. The same year, she co-founded Women on Top, an organization that until 2011 advocated more women in top jobs. As a firm advocate of female ambition and a promoter of more women in the supervisory and executive boards of big companies, Mees has been described as a "power feminist". She wrote a bi-weekly column in NRC Handelsblad, and has written for publications such as Foreign Policy and Het Financieele Dagblad. Mees is a columnist for Project Syndicate.
She was president of the chapter of the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA) in New York. From 2005 to 2008 she worked as volunteer-fundraiser for the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton.
In August 2012, Mees completed a doctoral thesis at the Erasmus School of Economics, focusing on the effect of China's economy on the emergence of the 2008 global financial crisis. While completing her research, she worked as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Tilburg University. From September 2012 until July 2013, Mees was employed as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Administration at New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
In July 2013, Mees was arrested in New York on charges of stalking her former lover, the chief economist of Citigroup, Willem Buiter. In March 2014, the court decided that the case against Mees was to be dismissed in one year provided that she complies with two conditions.
Publications
- Changing Fortunes - How China's Boom Caused the Financial Crisis (dissertation, 2012)
- Tussen hebzucht en verlangen - de wereld en het grote geld (2009)
- Weg met het deeltijdfeminisme! - over vrouwen, ambitie en carrière (2006)
References
- ^ "Powerfeminist Heleen Mees: 'Het liefst zou ik trouwen en kinderen krijgen'". Vrij Nederland (in Dutch). 25 April 2009. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|trans_title=ignored (|trans-title=suggested) (help) - "Ambitieuze powerfeministe met extreme meningen" (in Dutch). NRC Handelsblad. 3 March 2008. Retrieved 30 April 2014.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|trans_title=ignored (|trans-title=suggested) (help) - Visser, Arjan (22 March 2008). "Heleen Mees / Ik vind het niet erg mensen op de kast te jagen" (in Dutch). Trouw.nl. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|trans_title=ignored (|trans-title=suggested) (help) - ^ Carrie ten Napel (April 2008). "Twentse power-feministe Heleen Mees haalt geld op voor Hillary Clinton" (PDF) (in Dutch). TwenteVisie. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|trans_title=ignored (|trans-title=suggested) (help) - "Vrouwen moeten nu eindelijk eens echt aan het werk gaan" (PDF) (in Dutch). NRC Handelsblad. 21 January 2006. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|trans_title=ignored (|trans-title=suggested) (help) - "Women on Top" (in Dutch). Women on Top. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
- Huigsloot, Nathalie (21 October 2013). "Heleen Mees, profiel van een gevallen vrouw" (in Dutch). HP de Tijd. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|trans_title=ignored (|trans-title=suggested) (help) - "Heleen Mees", Foreign Policy. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
- "Heleen Mees". Het Financieele Dagblad. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
- "Columnist Heleen Mees". Project Syndicate. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
- Door: Lidy Nicolasen. "Heleen Mees: dwars, eigenzinnig en nu ook stalker [Heleen Mees, obstinate, headstrong and a stalker of late as well]- Binnenland - VK" (in Dutch). Volkskrant.nl. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|trans_title=(help) The PvdA-website calls her vice-president. - She worked from 2005 for the Clinton campaigns. NOS Heleen Mees on the election in America (announcement), NOS, 3 January 2008. Retrieved 10 May 2014. The last campaign was in 2008.
- "PhD defense Mr. drs. H. Mees". Erasmus University Rotterdam. 28 August 2012. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
- "Heleen Mees wil vrouwelijk potentieel mobiliseren" (in Dutch). Univers.online. 12 November 2010. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|trans_title=ignored (|trans-title=suggested) (help) - "Heleen Mees: Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Administration". Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. New York University. Archived from the original on 26 February 2013. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
- Rosenberg, Rebecca (3 July 2013). "Ex-NYU prof charged in Citigroup stalk". New York Post. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
- "Dutch prof's NYC stalking case set for dismissal". Wall Street Journal. 10 March 2014. Retrieved 27 April 2014.
- Heleen-Mees-Changing-Fortunes "Changing Fortunes - How China's Boom Caused the Financial Crisis". Erasmus University Rotterdam.
{{cite web}}: Check|url=value (help) - "Tussen hebzucht en verlangen" (in Dutch). Nieuw Amsterdam. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|trans_title=ignored (|trans-title=suggested) (help) - "Weg met het deeltijdfeminisme!" (in Dutch). Nieuw Amsterdam. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
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