Hans Schenk is professor 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.
Before accepting the professor-ship 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).
Achievements edit
Hans Schenk graduated from the University of Oregon(US), ob-tained his MBA in the collaborative Leuven/Cornell pro-gramme and his summa cum laude 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 currently is a fellow of CIBAM at Cambridge University (UK).
He was a consultant to more than a dozen multinational enter-prises, 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 reputa-ble 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 major Dutch newspapers while he appears regularly on radio and TV news programmes. Abroad, he was interviewed for such media as Canadian Public TV, Newsweek, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, and the China Business Times.
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Current positions edit
- Professor of Organisational Economics and Fellow of the Tjalling C. Koopmans Research Institute, Utrecht School of Economics, Utrecht University (since 2002)
- Chairman of the Board, GRASP Research (prev. Erasmus University Rotterdam; since 1987)
Auxiliary positions edit
- Member Supervisory Board, British American Tobacco Europe, Amsterdam; since 2007
- Fellow, ENCORE, University of Amsterdam; since 2006
- Associate Fellow, CIBAM, University of Cambridge (UK); since 2004
Previous positions edit
- Expert Associate, Danish Technological Institute (2004-2007)
- Member, Advisory Board Deloitte & Touche FAS, Amsterdam (2003-2007)
- Founding Member, Executive Committee, and Founding Director of the Tjalling C. Koopmans Research Institute, Utrecht School of Economics, Utrecht University (2002-2007)
- Professor of Industrial Policy, Tilburg University (1996-2002)
- Associate Member of the Mergers Review Committee, Social and Economic Council of the Netherlands (SER), The Hague (1999-2002)
- Director of Studies, Tias Business School, Tilburg University (1996-1998)
- Professeur en Théorie de la Firme, Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg (1993-1996)
- Associate Professor of Strategic Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam (1986-1993)
- Professor of International Business, China-Europe Management Institute/EFMD (now CEIBS), Beijing (Shanghai)/Brussels (1991-1993)
- Visiting Professorial Fellow of Industrial Economics, Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Coventry (1992)
- Senior Advisor, United Nations, Vienna (1988-1990)
- Visiting Professor of Industrial Policy, International University Institute, Luxembourg (1990)
- Managing Director, Emile Schenk Construction Services Ltd, Maastricht (1982-1986)
- Assistant/Associate Professor of OR, Faculty of Economics, University of Groningen (1974-1982)
Education edit
Economics as well as Business at Nyenrode University (NL), University of Oregon (USA); MBA from University of Leuven (B); Economics doctorate (summa cum laude) from UNSA (F)
Scholarlyaffiliations edit
- Associate Editor, Studies in Industrial Organization, Springer (since 2004);
- Member Editorial Committee, Economisch Statistische Berichten (since 2004);
- Associate Editor of International Journal of the Economics of Business (since 1992);
- Associate Editor of International Review of Applied Economics (since 1992);
- Past Member Steering Committee, ‘European Network on Industrial Policy’ (EUNIP; 1994-2002)
- Past Member Executive Committee, ‘European Association for Research in Industrial Economics’ (EARIE; 1986-1992);
- Past Founding Editor of Tijdschrift voor Politieke Ekonomie (1977-2002)
Miscellaneous edit
Acted as consultant to more than a dozen multi¬national enterprises; Dutch Ministries; the government of Vietnam and South Africa; UNCTAD; UNI-Europa; trade unions and employer’s federations. Past Member of the Industrial Policy Committee of the SER and various other official committees. Organiser of several high-impact conferences, most recently on ‘Governance of the Modern Firm'.
Research edit
- Eight books (Elsevier; Wolters-Noordhoff; Stenfert Kroese; Lemma; Kluwer; Springer); two special journal issues
- More than 80 scholarly papers in a.o. TPE; ESB; De Economist; Maandschrift Economie; Empirica; Int. Rev. Appl. Econ., J. Publ. Issues, J. Evol. Econ., and in edited volumes published by North-Holland; Manchester University Press; Routledge; Kluwer; Edward Elgar; Scriptum; Sage
- Many business or government sponsored extensive research reports and professional articles
Awardscitations edit
- Selected chief pre-advisor to the Royal Dutch Economic Society, 2001
- Selected one of the world’s 350, and the Netherlands’s 7, leading scholars in management, see Cooper, Who’s Who in the Management Sciences, 2000; and Economisch Statistische Berichten, 22 December 2000
- Nominated recipient of the Le Monde University Research Award 1998 (with CIC Bank)
- Most frequently cited scholar of Tilburg University in Dutch & foreign media, 1996-2001
- Considered “the internationally most reputable Dutch economist” by the Economist in 1993
- Teaching awards from Erasmus University, Tilburg University and Utrecht University.