Anton Hemerijck

Dr. Anton Hemerijck is a Professor of Political Science & Sociology and a Director of Graduate Studies at European University Institute.
He joined the firm in January 2017.
Dr. Hemerijck was trained as an economist at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.
He also directed the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR), the principle think tank in the Netherlands, while holding a professorship in Comparative European Social Policy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Between 1996 and 2000, he was senior researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne.
In addition, he has held numerous visiting appointments, ranging from MIT to the University of Lisbon, the University of Antwerp, the Collegio Carlo Alberto of Turin University.
Between 2014 and 2017, he was Centennial Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Dr. Hemerijck frequently served as an advisor on social policy, social investment and the welfare state for the European Commission.
Key publications include Changing Welfare States (2013) and The Uses of Social Investment (2017), both published with Oxford University Press.
He took his doctorate from Oxford University.