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'{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2014}} {{pp-move-indef}} {{Infobox person | name = Heleen Mees | image = Heleen mees.png | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Heleen Nijkamp | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|df=yes|1968}} | birth_place = Hengelo, [[Overijssel]], [[Netherlands]]<ref name=birth /> | website = {{URL|www.heleenmees.com}} | footnotes = }} '''Heleen Mees''' (born '''Heleen Nijkamp''', 1968, [[Hengelo]])<ref name=birth>{{cite news|url=http://www.vn.nl/Standaard-Media-Pagina/Powerfeminist-Heleen-Mees-Het-liefst-zou-ik-trouwen-en-kinderen-krijgen.htm|title=Powerfeminist Heleen Mees: 'Het liefst zou ik trouwen en kinderen krijgen'|language=Dutch|trans_title=Power feminist Heleen Mees: 'I would rather get married and have children'|newspaper=[[Vrij Nederland]]|date=25 April 2009|accessdate=11 March 2014}}</ref> is a [[Dutch people|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, Mees worked for the Dutch Treasury in [[The Hague]], two years as spokeswoman for former [[State Secretary (Netherlands)|State Secretary]] [[Willem Vermeend]].<ref name=birth /> Mees worked for the [[European Commission]] in [[Brussels]] from 1998 to 2000.<ref name=birth /> In 2000 she emigrated to the USA, where she changed her surname from Nijkamp to Mees.<ref>{{cite web|first=Arjan|last=Visser|url=http://www.trouw.nl/tr/nl/4324/Nieuws/article/detail/1215419/2008/03/22/Heleen-Mees-Ik-vind-het-niet-erg-mensen-op-de-kast-te-jagen.dhtml|title=Heleen Mees / Ik vind het niet erg mensen op de kast te jagen|trans_title=Heleen Mees / I don't mind to get a rise out of people|language=Dutch|publisher=Trouw.nl|date=22 March 2008|accessdate=8 May 2014}}</ref> In New York Mees was initially employed as a European affairs consultant for [[Ernst & Young]].<ref name=birth /><ref name="TwenteVisie" /> When her contract was not renewed, Mees stayed in New York and worked as an independent consultant on European affairs.<ref name=birth /> Mees also started writing opinion pieces for several Dutch newspapers. 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|accessdate=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|accessdate=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|accessdate=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|accessdate=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]". ''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>"[http://www.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|accessdate=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> 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|accessdate=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|format=PDF|language=Dutch|trans_title=Power Feminist Heleen Mees from Twente fundraiser for Hillary Clinton|author=Carrie ten Napel|publisher=TwenteVisie|date=April 2008|accessdate=26 April 2014}}</ref> 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 [[Financial crisis of 2007–08|2008 global financial crisis]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eur.nl/english/news/detail_news/article/39514-changing-fortunes-how-chinas-boom-caused-the-financial-crisis|title=PhD defense Mr. drs. H. Mees|first=|last=|publisher=Erasmus University Rotterdam|date=28 August 2012|accessdate=5 May 2014}}</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|accessdate=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|accessdate=5 May 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130226062918/http://wagner.nyu.edu/Mees|archivedate=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|accessdate=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=http://online.wsj.com/article/AP35e7f881be7841169dff04a021abd01a.html|title=Dutch prof's NYC stalking case set for dismissal|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|date=10 March 2014|accessdate=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== * ''Changing Fortunes - How China's Boom Caused the Financial Crisis'' (dissertation, 2012)<ref name=EUR>{{cite web|url=http://repub.eur.nl/pub/34930/ Heleen-Mees-Changing-Fortunes|publisher=Erasmus University Rotterdam|title=Changing Fortunes - How China's Boom Caused the Financial Crisis}}</ref> * ''Tussen hebzucht en verlangen - de wereld en het grote geld'' [Between Greed And Desire - Big Money and the World] (2009)<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=|accessdate=22 April 2014}}</ref> * ''Weg met het deeltijdfeminisme! - over vrouwen, ambitie en carrière'' [No More Part-Time Feminism! - On Women, Ambition and Career] (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=|accessdate=22 April 2014}}</ref> * ''Compendium van het Europees belastingrecht'' [Compendium of EU Law] (2002)<ref>{{cite web|url=hhttp://www.literatuurplein.nl/boekdetail.jsp?boekId=390144|publisher=Kluwer|title=Compendium van het Europees belastingrecht|language=Dutch|trans_title=Compendium of EU Law|date=|accessdate=29 mei 2015}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist|30em}} ==External links== * {{Official website|http://www.heleenmees.com}} {{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. --> | NAME = Mees, Heleen | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = Dutch columnist, lawyer and feminist | DATE OF BIRTH = 1968 | PLACE OF BIRTH = Hengelo, Overijssel, Netherlands | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Mees, Heleen}} [[Category:1968 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Dutch columnists]] [[Category:Dutch economists]] [[Category:Dutch expatriates in the United States]] [[Category:Dutch feminists]] [[Category:Dutch lawyers]] [[Category:People from Hengelo]] [[Category:Erasmus University Rotterdam alumni]] [[Category:University of Groningen alumni]] [[Category:Feminist writers]] [[Category:Women lawyers]]'