heleen mees born heleen nijkamp hengelo is a dutch opinion writer economist and lawyer she has been credited as being a third wave feminist contents hide tabtab biography tabtab publications tabtab references tabtab external links biography mees graduated in economy and law at university of groningen from to mees worked for the dutch treasury in the hague from to mees worked as a national expert for the european commission in brussels in she emigrated to the usa where she changed her surname to mees mees lives in brooklyn new york mees' breakthrough as an opinion writer in the netherlands came in when she wrote the time is long overdue that women should go to work that same year she co founded women on top an organization that until advocated more women in top jobs from to mees wrote a bi weekly column in nrc handelsblad and from to for het financieele dagblad her work has been published in the financial times foreign policy and other international newspapers currently she is a columnist for project syndicate and the german magazine capital mees is the author of three books in august mees completed a doctoral thesis at the erasmus school of economics focusing on the effect of china's economy on the emergence of the global financial crisis while completing her research she worked as an adjunct assistant professor at tilburg university from september until july mees was employed as an adjunct associate professor of public administration at new york university's robert f wagner graduate school of public service in july mees was arrested in new york on charges of stalking her former lover the chief economist of citigroup willem buiter in march the court decided that the case against mees was to be dismissed in one year provided that she complies with two conditions