Biography
Klaus Heine is Professor of Law and Economics at the Erasmus School of Law in Rotterdam. His research areas are European economic policy, law and economics, and management, and he is one of the few scholars worldwide to work on the intersection of these three research domains. In recent years he specialized in the legal embedding of digitalization. In this domain he also does policy consulting. His research is recognised by an international audience through presentations at numerous international conferences and publishing in leading journals in the respective fields. He was awarded a Jean Monnet Chair of Economic Analysis of European Law in June 2012. In 2019 he became the director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on Digital Governance. The Centre seeks for new institutional solutions for the disruptive challenges from digitalization. Additionally, he is one of the academic directors of the Erasmus Centre for Data Analytics.