Anton Hemerijck

Anton Hemerijck is Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the European University Institute. Trained as an economist at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, he took his doctorate from Oxford University.

Between 2009 and 2013, Dr. Hemerijck was Dean of the Faculty of the Social Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. From 2013 and 2017, he was Centennial Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He also directed the Scientific Council for Government Policy, the principle think tank in the Netherlands, while holding a professorship in Comparative European Social Policy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam from 2001 until 2009. In 2020, he won a European Research Council Advanced Grant for the research project WellSIRe (Wellbeing Returns on Social Investment Recalibration).

Dr. Hemerijck has frequently served as an advisor to the European Commission on social policy, social investment, and the welfare state. His key publications include Changing Welfare States (2013) and The Uses of Social Investment (2017), both published with Oxford University Press.