Koen Haegens
Fellow
- E-mail: haegens@groene.nl
- Department: Research
Koen Haegens (1980) is a senior editor and columnist for Dutch weekly De Groene Amsterdammer. Previously he, amongst others, worked for de Volkskrant as an economics reporter and columnist, followed both the banking crisis and the euro crisis and was a correspondent in Berlin. He has masters in political science (Leiden University) and journalism (University of Amsterdam).
As an IISH-fellow and (external) PhD researcher at Radboud University in Nijmegen he currently explores the growth of temporary contracts, agency work, on-call workers and freelancers over the past fifty years. How did the Netherlands become a European champion in flexible labor?
He is the author of several non-fiction books. His debut Neem de tijd. Overleven in de to go-maatschappij was published in 2012. As a journalist-in-residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS), he wrote De grootste show op aarde. De mythe van de markteconomie (2015), followed in 2023 by Op zoek naar de verstrooide tijd.
Recent articles: https://www.groene.nl/auteur/koen-haegens
Linkedin: https://nl.linkedin.com/in/koen-haegens-27468198
Bluesky: @koenhaegens
