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Mees' breakthrough as an opinion writer (she is credited as a [[third-wave feminism|third wave feminist]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nrc.nl/handelsblad/van/2008/maart/03/ambitieuze-powerfeministe-met-extreme-meningen-11496960|title=Ambitieuze powerfeministe met extreme meningen|language=Dutch|trans-title=Ambitious power feminist with extreme opinions|publisher=[[NRC Handelsblad]]|date=3 March 2008|access-date=30 April 2014}}</ref>) 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''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.women-on-top.nl/wp-content/uploads/nrc-mees.pdf|title=Vrouwen moeten nu eindelijk eens echt aan het werk gaan|language=Dutch|trans-title=The time is long overdue that women should go to work|publisher=NRC Handelsblad|date=21 January 2006|access-date=5 May 2014}}</ref> The same year, she co-founded Women on Top, an organization that until 2011 advocated more women in top jobs.<ref name="Women on Top">{{cite web|url=http://www.women-on-top.nl|title=Women on Top|language=Dutch|publisher=Women on Top|access-date=5 May 2014}}</ref> 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".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hpdetijd.nl/2013-10-21/heleen-mees-profiel-gevallen-vrouw|title=Heleen Mees, profiel van een gevallen vrouw|language=Dutch|trans-title=Heleen Mees, Profile of a Fallen Woman|first=Nathalie|last=Huigsloot|publisher=HP de Tijd|date=21 October 2013|access-date=8 May 2014}}</ref>
Mees' breakthrough as an opinion writer (she is credited as a [[third-wave feminism|third wave feminist]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nrc.nl/handelsblad/van/2008/maart/03/ambitieuze-powerfeministe-met-extreme-meningen-11496960|title=Ambitieuze powerfeministe met extreme meningen|language=Dutch|trans-title=Ambitious power feminist with extreme opinions|publisher=[[NRC Handelsblad]]|date=3 March 2008|access-date=30 April 2014}}</ref>) 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''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.women-on-top.nl/wp-content/uploads/nrc-mees.pdf|title=Vrouwen moeten nu eindelijk eens echt aan het werk gaan|language=Dutch|trans-title=The time is long overdue that women should go to work|publisher=NRC Handelsblad|date=21 January 2006|access-date=5 May 2014}}</ref> The same year, she co-founded Women on Top, an organization that until 2011 advocated more women in top jobs.<ref name="Women on Top">{{cite web|url=http://www.women-on-top.nl|title=Women on Top|language=Dutch|publisher=Women on Top|access-date=5 May 2014}}</ref> 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".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hpdetijd.nl/2013-10-21/heleen-mees-profiel-gevallen-vrouw|title=Heleen Mees, profiel van een gevallen vrouw|language=Dutch|trans-title=Heleen Mees, Profile of a Fallen Woman|first=Nathalie|last=Huigsloot|publisher=HP de Tijd|date=21 October 2013|access-date=8 May 2014}}</ref>


From 2006 to 2010 she wrote a bi-weekly column in ''NRC Handelsblad'', and from 2012 to 2013 a weekly column for ''[[Het Financieele Dagblad]]''.<ref>"[http://fd.nl/economie-politiek/columns/heleen-mees/ Heleen Mees] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140417001911/http://fd.nl/economie-politiek/columns/heleen-mees/ |date=17 April 2014 }}". ''Het Financieele Dagblad''. Retrieved 10 May 2014.</ref> She has written for publications such as ''[[Foreign Policy (magazine)|Foreign Policy]]'' and the ''[[Financial Times]]''.<ref>"[https://foreignpolicy.com/profiles/Heleen-Mees Heleen Mees]", ''Foreign Policy''. Retrieved 10 May 2014.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/654ae02c-1199-11dd-a93b-0000779fd2ac.html|newspaper=Financial Times|title=Why we must break the male cartel in the work place}}</ref> Mees is a columnist for ''[[Project Syndicate]]'' and for ''[[Capital (German magazine)|Capital]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.project-syndicate.org/columnist/heleen-mees|publisher=[[Project Syndicate]]|title=Columnist Heleen Mees|access-date=1 May 2014}}</ref><ref>Mees, Heleen. (30 May 2014). "[http://www.capital.de/meinungen/warum-china-zu-unrecht-beschuldigt-wird.html Warum China zu Unrecht beschuldigt wird]", ''[[Capital (German magazine)|Capital]]''. Retrieved 31 May 2014.</ref> In September 2015 she was a guest columnist for ''[[de Volkskrant]]'',<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.volkskrant.nl/opinie/verhuis-noorderlingen-naar-de-grote-stad~a4140190/|title=Verhuis noorderlingen naar de grote stad|last=Mees|first=Heleen|date=13 September 2015|work=[[De Volkskrant]]|language=Dutch|access-date=11 October 2015}}</ref> and in 2016 began a biweekly column for that same paper.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.quotenet.nl/Nieuws/Heleen-Mees-wordt-vaste-columnist-van-de-Volkskrant-175144|title=Heleen Mees wordt vaste columnist van de Volkskrant|date=11 March 2016|work=[[Quote (magazine)|Quote]]|language=Dutch|access-date=7 October 2016}}</ref>
From 2006 to 2010 she wrote a bi-weekly column in ''NRC Handelsblad'', and from 2012 to 2013 a weekly column for ''[[Het Financieele Dagblad]]''.<ref>"[http://fd.nl/economie-politiek/columns/heleen-mees/ Heleen Mees] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140417001911/http://fd.nl/economie-politiek/columns/heleen-mees/ |date=17 April 2014 }}". ''Het Financieele Dagblad''. Retrieved 10 May 2014.</ref> She has written for publications such as ''[[Foreign Policy (magazine)|Foreign Policy]]''<ref>"[https://foreignpolicy.com/profiles/Heleen-Mees Heleen Mees]", ''Foreign Policy''. Retrieved 10 May 2014.</ref> and for ''[[Project Syndicate]]'' In September 2015 she was a guest columnist for ''[[de Volkskrant]]'',<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.volkskrant.nl/opinie/verhuis-noorderlingen-naar-de-grote-stad~a4140190/|title=Verhuis noorderlingen naar de grote stad|last=Mees|first=Heleen|date=13 September 2015|work=[[De Volkskrant]]|language=Dutch|access-date=11 October 2015}}</ref> and in 2016 began a biweekly column for that same paper.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.quotenet.nl/Nieuws/Heleen-Mees-wordt-vaste-columnist-van-de-Volkskrant-175144|title=Heleen Mees wordt vaste columnist van de Volkskrant|date=11 March 2016|work=[[Quote (magazine)|Quote]]|language=Dutch|access-date=7 October 2016}}</ref>


She was vice-president of the chapter of [[Labour Party (Netherlands)|the Dutch Labour Party]] (PvdA) in New York.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pvda.nl/berichten/2013/04/Het+New+Yorkse+PvdA-honk|title=Het New Yorkse PvdA-honk|date=1 April 2013|publisher=[[Labour Party (Netherlands)|PvdA]]|language=Dutch|access-date=3 June 2014}}</ref> From 2005 to 2008<ref>She worked from 2005 for the Clinton campaigns. [http://nos.nl/audio/26486-heleen-mees-over-amerikaanse-verkiezingen.html NOS Heleen Mees on the election in America (announcement)], NOS, 3 January 2008. Retrieved 10 May 2014. The last campaign was in 2008.</ref> she worked as volunteer-fundraiser for the presidential campaign of [[Hillary Clinton]].<ref name="TwenteVisie">{{cite web|url=http://www.twentevisie.nl/Files/Billeder/PDF%20Archief/2008/April/0804-08.pdf|title=Twentse power-feministe Heleen Mees haalt geld op voor Hillary Clinton|language=Dutch|trans-title=Power Feminist Heleen Mees from Twente fundraiser for Hillary Clinton|author=Carrie ten Napel|publisher=TwenteVisie|date=April 2008|access-date=26 April 2014}}</ref>
She was vice-president of the chapter of [[Labour Party (Netherlands)|the Dutch Labour Party]] (PvdA) in New York.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pvda.nl/berichten/2013/04/Het+New+Yorkse+PvdA-honk|title=Het New Yorkse PvdA-honk|date=1 April 2013|publisher=[[Labour Party (Netherlands)|PvdA]]|language=Dutch|access-date=3 June 2014|archive-date=12 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140512230857/http://www.pvda.nl/berichten/2013/04/Het+New+Yorkse+PvdA-honk|url-status=dead}}</ref> From 2005 to 2008<ref>She worked from 2005 for the Clinton campaigns. [http://nos.nl/audio/26486-heleen-mees-over-amerikaanse-verkiezingen.html NOS Heleen Mees on the election in America (announcement)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140512221612/http://nos.nl/audio/26486-heleen-mees-over-amerikaanse-verkiezingen.html |date=12 May 2014 }}, NOS, 3 January 2008. Retrieved 10 May 2014. The last campaign was in 2008.</ref> she worked as volunteer-fundraiser for the presidential campaign of [[Hillary Clinton]].<ref name="TwenteVisie">{{cite web|url=http://www.twentevisie.nl/Files/Billeder/PDF%20Archief/2008/April/0804-08.pdf|title=Twentse power-feministe Heleen Mees haalt geld op voor Hillary Clinton|language=Dutch|trans-title=Power Feminist Heleen Mees from Twente fundraiser for Hillary Clinton|author=Carrie ten Napel|publisher=TwenteVisie|date=April 2008|access-date=26 April 2014|archive-date=27 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140427194530/http://www.twentevisie.nl/Files/Billeder/PDF%20Archief/2008/April/0804-08.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> In July 2013, Mees was arrested in New York on charges of stalking her former lover, the chief economist of [[Citigroup]], [[Willem Buiter]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/ex_nyu_prof_charged_in_citigroup_jv8h0yt1qYyNeNxy48W3WO|title=Ex-NYU prof charged in Citigroup stalk|first=Rebecca|last=Rosenberg|newspaper=New York Post|date=3 July 2013|access-date=5 May 2014}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/AP35e7f881be7841169dff04a021abd01a|title=Dutch prof's NYC stalking case set for dismissal|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|date=10 March 2014|access-date=27 April 2014}}</ref> Later that year, in September 2014, Mees responded by filing for damages against Buiter.<ref>"[http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/23137087/__Heleen_Mees_eist_miljoenen__.html Heleen Mees eist miljoenen]". ''[[De Telegraaf]]'' 29 September 2014. Retrieved 13 October 2014.</ref> In November 2016, Mees simultaneously lost both lawsuits in Amsterdam and New York.<ref>[http://www.quotenet.nl/Nieuws/Pijnlijk-Heleen-Mees-verliest-rechtszaak-van-Willem-Buiter-187358 Sonny Motké: Pijnlijk: Heleen Mees verliest rechtszaak van Willem Buiter (Painful: Heleen Mees loses lawsuit against Willem Buiter)], www.quotenet.nl (9 november 2016)</ref>


In August 2012, Mees completed a doctoral thesis at the [[Erasmus School of Economics]], in which she argued that the primary cause of the [[Financial crisis of 2007–08|2008 global financial crisis]] was the flourishing economy in China and resulting savings and government investments by the Chinese.<ref name="Mees 2012">{{cite web |url=http://repub.eur.nl/pub/34930/ |first=Heleen |last=Mees |title=Changing Fortunes. How China's Boom Caused the Financial Crisis (Dissertation)|publisher=Erasmus University Rotterdam |date=2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Veerle |last=Corstens |url=http://tedx.amsterdam/2013/11/how-chinas-boom-caused-the-financial-crisis/ |title=How China's boom caused the financial crisis |publisher=[[TEDx]] Amsterdam |date=November 2013 }}</ref> While completing her research, she worked as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at [[Tilburg University]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://universonline.nl/2010/11/12/heleen-mees-wil-vrouwelijk-potentieel-mobiliseren|title=Heleen Mees wil vrouwelijk potentieel mobiliseren|language=Dutch|trans-title=Heleen Mees wants to unlock the Female Potential|publisher=Univers.online|date=12 November 2010|access-date=5 May 2014}}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wagner.nyu.edu/Mees|title=Heleen Mees: Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Administration|work=Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service|publisher=New York University|access-date=5 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130226062918/http://wagner.nyu.edu/Mees|archive-date=26 February 2013}}</ref>
In August 2012, Mees completed a doctoral thesis at the [[Erasmus School of Economics]], in which she argued that the primary cause of the [[Financial crisis of 2007–08|2008 global financial crisis]] was the flourishing economy in China and resulting savings and government investments by the Chinese.<ref name="Mees 2012">{{cite book |url=http://repub.eur.nl/pub/34930/ |first=Heleen |last=Mees |title=Changing Fortunes. How China's Boom Caused the Financial Crisis (Dissertation)|publisher=Erasmus University Rotterdam |date=2012 |isbn=9789058923110 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Veerle |last=Corstens |url=http://tedx.amsterdam/2013/11/how-chinas-boom-caused-the-financial-crisis/ |title=How China's boom caused the financial crisis |publisher=[[TEDx]] Amsterdam |date=November 2013 }}</ref> While completing her research, she worked as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at [[Tilburg University]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://universonline.nl/2010/11/12/heleen-mees-wil-vrouwelijk-potentieel-mobiliseren|title=Heleen Mees wil vrouwelijk potentieel mobiliseren|language=Dutch|trans-title=Heleen Mees wants to unlock the Female Potential|publisher=Univers.online|date=12 November 2010|access-date=5 May 2014}}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wagner.nyu.edu/Mees|title=Heleen Mees: Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Administration|work=Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service|publisher=New York University|access-date=5 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130226062918/http://wagner.nyu.edu/Mees|archive-date=26 February 2013}}</ref>

In July 2013, Mees was arrested in New York on charges of stalking her former lover, the chief economist of [[Citigroup]], [[Willem Buiter]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/ex_nyu_prof_charged_in_citigroup_jv8h0yt1qYyNeNxy48W3WO|title=Ex-NYU prof charged in Citigroup stalk|first=Rebecca|last=Rosenberg|newspaper=New York Post|date=3 July 2013|access-date=5 May 2014}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/AP35e7f881be7841169dff04a021abd01a|title=Dutch prof's NYC stalking case set for dismissal|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|date=10 March 2014|access-date=27 April 2014}}</ref> Later that year, in September 2014, Mees responded by filing for damages against Buiter.<ref>"[http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/23137087/__Heleen_Mees_eist_miljoenen__.html Heleen Mees eist miljoenen]". ''[[De Telegraaf]]'' 29 September 2014. Retrieved 13 October 2014.</ref>


==Publications==
==Publications==
===in English===
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* ''The Chinese Birdcage - How China's Rise Almost Toppled the West'' (2016). {{ISBN|978-1-137-58885-2}}<ref>"[http://webmail.newasiabooks.org/publication/chinese-birdcage-how-chinas-rise-almost-toppled-west-2016?page=1 Chinese Birdcage, The: How China's Rise Almost Toppled the West: 2016]", ''newbooks.asia''. Accessed 7 October 2016</ref>
* {{Cite book |first=Heleen |last=Mees |title=Changing fortunes : how China's boom caused the financial crisis |publisher=Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), Erasmus University Rotterdam |location=Rotterdam |date=2012 |series=ERIM Ph.D. series research in management, 266 |isbn=9789058923110 |oclc=869743485}} PhD dissertation, 159 pp.
* ''Changing Fortunes. How China's Boom Caused the Financial Crisis'', 2012 (Dissertation).<ref name="Mees 2012"/> {{ISBN|978-90-5892-311-0}}
* "NY Service Economy - A Template for a Future Suburbia" in ''Here, There, Everywhere'' 2014. DroogLab Amsterdam. {{ISBN|978-9090281735}}<ref>"[http://www.droog.com/news/2014/05/here-there-4-year-journey/ Here, There, Everywhere a 4-year journey]", ''droog''. Accessed 12 October 2016</ref>
* "NY Service Economy - A Template for a Future Suburbia" in ''Here, There, Everywhere'' 2014. DroogLab Amsterdam. {{ISBN|978-9090281735}}<ref>"[http://www.droog.com/news/2014/05/here-there-4-year-journey/ Here, There, Everywhere a 4-year journey] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012224416/http://www.droog.com/news/2014/05/here-there-4-year-journey/ |date=12 October 2016 }}", ''droog''. Accessed 12 October 2016</ref>
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* ''The Chinese Birdcage - How China's Rise Almost Toppled the West'' (2016). {{ISBN|978-1-137-58885-2}}<ref>"[http://webmail.newasiabooks.org/publication/chinese-birdcage-how-chinas-rise-almost-toppled-west-2016?page=1 Chinese Birdcage, The: How China's Rise Almost Toppled the West: 2016] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161009182832/http://webmail.newasiabooks.org/publication/chinese-birdcage-how-chinas-rise-almost-toppled-west-2016?page=1 |date=9 October 2016 }}", ''newbooks.asia''. Accessed 7 October 2016</ref>
* ''Tussen hebzucht en verlangen - de wereld en het grote geld'' [Between Greed And Desire - Big Money and the World] (2009). {{ISBN|978-90-468-0572-5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nieuwamsterdam.nl/tussen-hebzucht-en-verlangen#.UzK6nyjfFLE|publisher=Nieuw Amsterdam|title=Tussen hebzucht en verlangen|language=Dutch|trans-title=Between Greed And Desire - Big Money and the World|date=|access-date=22 April 2014}}</ref>

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* ''Weg met het deeltijdfeminisme! - over vrouwen, ambitie en carrière'' [No More Part-Time Feminism! - On Women, Ambition and Career] (2006). {{ISBN|978-90-468-0214-4}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nieuwamsterdam.nl/weg-met-het-deeltijdfeminisme-#.UzLQWCjfFLE|publisher=Nieuw Amsterdam|title=Weg met het deeltijdfeminisme!|language=Dutch|trans-title=No More Part-Time Feminism! - On Women, Ambition and Career|date=|access-date=22 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140318014632/http://www.nieuwamsterdam.nl/weg-met-het-deeltijdfeminisme-#.UzLQWCjfFLE|archive-date=18 March 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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* ''Compendium van het Europees belastingrecht'' [Compendium of EU Law] (2002) (coauthor). {{ISBN|90-200-2435-3}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.literatuurplein.nl/boekdetail.jsp?boekId=390144|publisher=Kluwer|title=Compendium van het Europees belastingrecht|language=Dutch|trans-title=Compendium of EU Law|date=|access-date=29 May 2015}}</ref>
* {{Cite book |first=Heleen |last=Mees |title=Tussen hebzucht en verlangen - de wereld en het grote geld. Columns over actuele sociaal-economische kwesties. |trans-title=Between Greed And Desire - Big Money and the World |date=2009 |isbn=978-90-468-0572-5 |publisher=Nieuw Amsterdam |language=Dutch}}
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* {{Cite book |first=Heleen |last=Mees |title=Weg met het deeltijdfeminisme! : over vrouwen, ambitie en carrière |trans-title=No More Part-Time Feminism! - On Women, Ambition and Career |publisher=Nieuw Amsterdam |language=Dutch |isbn=9789046802144 |oclc=150254852 |location=Amsterdam |edition=2nd |date=2007}} 160pp. First edition was 2006.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nieuwamsterdam.nl/weg-met-het-deeltijdfeminisme-#.UzLQWCjfFLE|publisher=Nieuw Amsterdam|title=Weg met het deeltijdfeminisme!|language=Dutch|trans-title=No More Part-Time Feminism! - On Women, Ambition and Career|date=|access-date=22 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140318014632/http://www.nieuwamsterdam.nl/weg-met-het-deeltijdfeminisme-#.UzLQWCjfFLE |archive-date=18 March 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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* ''Compendium van het Europees belastingrecht'' [Compendium of EU Law] (2002) (coauthor). {{ISBN|90-200-2435-3}}<ref>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150530122608/http://www.literatuurplein.nl/boekdetail.jsp?boekId=390144 |archive-date=2015-05-30 |url=http://www.literatuurplein.nl/boekdetail.jsp?boekId=390144 |publisher=Kluwer |title=Compendium van het Europees belastingrecht |language=Dutch |trans-title=Compendium of EU Law |date= |access-date=29 May 2015}}</ref>


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Heleen Mees
Mees 2020 (photo Carin Verbruggen/Nouveau)
Born
Heleen Nijkamp

1968 (age 55–56)
Hengelo, Overijssel, Netherlands[1]
Websitewww.heleenmees.com

Heleen Mees (born Heleen Nijkamp, 1968)[1] is a Dutch opinion writer, economist, and lawyer. Involved with politics and public policy in the Netherlands and the US, she has also taught at universities in both countries.

Biography

Mees graduated in Economy and Law at University of Groningen. From 1992 to 1998, she worked for the Dutch Treasury in The Hague, for two years as spokeswoman for former State Secretary Willem Vermeend.[1] She then worked for the European Commission in Brussels from 1998 to 2000.[1] In 2000 she emigrated to the US, where she changed her surname from Nijkamp to Mees.[2]

In New York Mees was initially employed as a European affairs consultant for Ernst & Young.[1][3] When her contract was not renewed, Mees stayed in New York and worked as an independent consultant on European affairs.[1] Mees also started writing opinion pieces for several Dutch newspapers.

Mees' breakthrough as an opinion writer (she is credited as a third wave feminist[4]) 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.[5] The same year, she co-founded Women on Top, an organization that until 2011 advocated more women in top jobs.[6] 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".[7]

From 2006 to 2010 she wrote a bi-weekly column in NRC Handelsblad, and from 2012 to 2013 a weekly column for Het Financieele Dagblad.[8] She has written for publications such as Foreign Policy[9] and for Project Syndicate In September 2015 she was a guest columnist for de Volkskrant,[10] and in 2016 began a biweekly column for that same paper.[11]

She was vice-president of the chapter of the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA) in New York.[12] From 2005 to 2008[13] she worked as volunteer-fundraiser for the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton.[3] In July 2013, Mees was arrested in New York on charges of stalking her former lover, the chief economist of Citigroup, Willem Buiter.[14] 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.[15] Later that year, in September 2014, Mees responded by filing for damages against Buiter.[16] In November 2016, Mees simultaneously lost both lawsuits in Amsterdam and New York.[17]

In August 2012, Mees completed a doctoral thesis at the Erasmus School of Economics, in which she argued that the primary cause of the 2008 global financial crisis was the flourishing economy in China and resulting savings and government investments by the Chinese.[18][19] While completing her research, she worked as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Tilburg University.[20] 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.[21]

Publications

in English

  • Mees, Heleen (2012). Changing fortunes : how China's boom caused the financial crisis. ERIM Ph.D. series research in management, 266. Rotterdam: Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), Erasmus University Rotterdam. ISBN 9789058923110. OCLC 869743485. PhD dissertation, 159 pp.
  • "NY Service Economy - A Template for a Future Suburbia" in Here, There, Everywhere 2014. DroogLab Amsterdam. ISBN 978-9090281735[22]
  • The Chinese Birdcage - How China's Rise Almost Toppled the West (2016). ISBN 978-1-137-58885-2[23]

in Dutch

  • Mees, Heleen (2009). Tussen hebzucht en verlangen - de wereld en het grote geld. Columns over actuele sociaal-economische kwesties [Between Greed And Desire - Big Money and the World] (in Dutch). Nieuw Amsterdam. ISBN 978-90-468-0572-5.
  • Mees, Heleen (2007). Weg met het deeltijdfeminisme! : over vrouwen, ambitie en carrière [No More Part-Time Feminism! - On Women, Ambition and Career] (in Dutch) (2nd ed.). Amsterdam: Nieuw Amsterdam. ISBN 9789046802144. OCLC 150254852. 160pp. First edition was 2006.[24]
  • Compendium van het Europees belastingrecht [Compendium of EU Law] (2002) (coauthor). ISBN 90-200-2435-3[25]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Powerfeminist Heleen Mees: 'Het liefst zou ik trouwen en kinderen krijgen'" [Power feminist Heleen Mees: 'I would rather get married and have children']. Vrij Nederland (in Dutch). 25 April 2009. Archived from the original on 11 March 2014. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
  2. ^ Visser, Arjan (22 March 2008). "Heleen Mees / Ik vind het niet erg mensen op de kast te jagen" [Heleen Mees / I don't mind getting a rise out of people] (in Dutch). Trouw.nl. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
  3. ^ a b Carrie ten Napel (April 2008). "Twentse power-feministe Heleen Mees haalt geld op voor Hillary Clinton" [Power Feminist Heleen Mees from Twente fundraiser for Hillary Clinton] (PDF) (in Dutch). TwenteVisie. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 April 2014. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
  4. ^ "Ambitieuze powerfeministe met extreme meningen" [Ambitious power feminist with extreme opinions] (in Dutch). NRC Handelsblad. 3 March 2008. Retrieved 30 April 2014.
  5. ^ "Vrouwen moeten nu eindelijk eens echt aan het werk gaan" [The time is long overdue that women should go to work] (PDF) (in Dutch). NRC Handelsblad. 21 January 2006. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
  6. ^ "Women on Top" (in Dutch). Women on Top. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
  7. ^ Huigsloot, Nathalie (21 October 2013). "Heleen Mees, profiel van een gevallen vrouw" [Heleen Mees, Profile of a Fallen Woman] (in Dutch). HP de Tijd. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
  8. ^ "Heleen Mees Archived 17 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine". Het Financieele Dagblad. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  9. ^ "Heleen Mees", Foreign Policy. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  10. ^ Mees, Heleen (13 September 2015). "Verhuis noorderlingen naar de grote stad". De Volkskrant (in Dutch). Retrieved 11 October 2015.
  11. ^ "Heleen Mees wordt vaste columnist van de Volkskrant". Quote (in Dutch). 11 March 2016. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
  12. ^ "Het New Yorkse PvdA-honk" (in Dutch). PvdA. 1 April 2013. Archived from the original on 12 May 2014. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
  13. ^ She worked from 2005 for the Clinton campaigns. NOS Heleen Mees on the election in America (announcement) Archived 12 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine, NOS, 3 January 2008. Retrieved 10 May 2014. The last campaign was in 2008.
  14. ^ Rosenberg, Rebecca (3 July 2013). "Ex-NYU prof charged in Citigroup stalk". New York Post. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
  15. ^ "Dutch prof's NYC stalking case set for dismissal". Wall Street Journal. 10 March 2014. Retrieved 27 April 2014.
  16. ^ "Heleen Mees eist miljoenen". De Telegraaf 29 September 2014. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
  17. ^ Sonny Motké: Pijnlijk: Heleen Mees verliest rechtszaak van Willem Buiter (Painful: Heleen Mees loses lawsuit against Willem Buiter), www.quotenet.nl (9 november 2016)
  18. ^ Mees, Heleen (2012). Changing Fortunes. How China's Boom Caused the Financial Crisis (Dissertation). Erasmus University Rotterdam. ISBN 9789058923110.
  19. ^ Corstens, Veerle (November 2013). "How China's boom caused the financial crisis". TEDx Amsterdam.
  20. ^ "Heleen Mees wil vrouwelijk potentieel mobiliseren" [Heleen Mees wants to unlock the Female Potential] (in Dutch). Univers.online. 12 November 2010. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
  21. ^ "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.
  22. ^ "Here, There, Everywhere a 4-year journey Archived 12 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine", droog. Accessed 12 October 2016
  23. ^ "Chinese Birdcage, The: How China's Rise Almost Toppled the West: 2016 Archived 9 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine", newbooks.asia. Accessed 7 October 2016
  24. ^ "Weg met het deeltijdfeminisme!" [No More Part-Time Feminism! - On Women, Ambition and Career] (in Dutch). Nieuw Amsterdam. Archived from the original on 18 March 2014. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
  25. ^ "Compendium van het Europees belastingrecht" [Compendium of EU Law] (in Dutch). Kluwer. Archived from the original on 30 May 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
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