Hans Schenk is professor of economics and Fellow of the Tjalling C. Koopmans Research Institute at Utrecht University’s School of Economics (USE) of which he was founding director.

Before accepting the professorship at USE, he was a professor of economics and business at Tilburg University and an associate professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam and the University of Groningen.

Hans Schenk graduated from the University of Oregon, obtained his mba in the collaborative Leuven/Cornell programme and his summa cum laude doctorate in economics from Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis. He has held chairs at several foreign institutions, among which the China-Europe Management Institute in Beijing and Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg. He currently is a fellow of CIBAM at Cambridge University (UK).

He was a consultant to more than a dozen multinational enterprises, 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 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 reputable 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.