In August 2012, Mees completed a doctoral thesis at the Erasmus School of Economics, in which she argued that the primary cause of the 2008 global financial crisis was the flourishing economy in China and resulting savings and government investments by the Chinese. While completing her research, she worked as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Tilburg University. From September 2012 until July 2013, Mees was employed as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Administration at New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Publications The Chinese Birdcage - How China's Rise Almost Toppled the West (2016). Changing Fortunes. How China's Boom Caused the Financial Crisis, 2012 (Dissertation). "NY Service Economy - A Template for a Future Suburbia" in Here, There, Everywhere 2014. DroogLab Amsterdam. Tussen hebzucht en verlangen - de wereld en het grote geld [Between Greed And Desire - Big Money and the World] (2009). Weg met het deeltijdfeminisme! - over vrouwen, ambitie en carrière [No More Part-Time Feminism! - On Women, Ambition and Career] (2006). Compendium van het Europees belastingrecht [Compendium of EU Law] (2002) (coauthor). References External links 1968 births Living people Dutch columnists Dutch economists Dutch women economists Dutch expatriates in the United States Dutch feminists 20th-century Dutch lawyers People from Hengelo Erasmus University Rotterdam alumni University of Groningen alumni Feminist writers Dutch women lawyers New York University faculty Academic staff of Tilburg University Dutch women columnists