Curriculum Vitae

 

Academic career

Herman W. Hoen (1960) graduated cum laude in economics (MA) at the University of Groningen (1988). In 1992, he received his PhD for a research on political and economic reforms in Hungary during the 1970s and 1980s. During the research for his dissertation he worked at the Budapesti Közgazdaság Tudományi Egyetem (Budapest University of Economics), presently known as Corvinus University of Budapest . After finishing his PhD, he became research fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Akademie-Onderzoeker). Currently he holds a chair as professor of International Political Economy at the Department of International Relations of the University of Groningen. He was visiting professor at the Georg August Univerisität (Göttingen), the  Europa Universität Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder), and Bilkent University (Ankara). His research focuses upon the political economy of transformation from a centrally planned to a market economy in Central and Eastern Europe.

 

Management

From September 1998 till September 2003 Herman W. Hoen chaired the Department of History/International Relations and from September 2006 till September 2010 he was scientific director of the Groningen Research Institute for the Study of Culture (Instituut voor Cultuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek Groningen (ICOG)) and the Groningen Research School for the Study of the Humanities (Onderzoekschool Geesteswetenschappen Groningen (OGWG)).

 

Editorships

He is general editor of the Groningen Studies in Cultural Change (since 2007), a book series published by Peeters in Leuven (Belgium), and editor of Emerging Markets Studies (since 2010), a series at Peter Lang Verlag in Frankfurt am Main (Germany). Furthermore he is member of the editorial board of  Economic and Environmental Studies (since 2004). He was associate editor of Forum for Social Economics (2003-2008), editor of Oost-Europa Verkenningen (1998-2002) and Ablak (2007-2009). The latter two (Dutch) journals ceased to be published since 2003 and 2010, respectively.

 

Memberships

Association for Comparative Economic Studies (ACES) , European Association for Comparative Economic Studies(EACES) , The Association for Social Economics (ASE).