Economist and Senior Researcher, UNU-MERIT (Maastricht University)
Hugo Hollanders is an Economist and Senior Researcher at UNU-MERIT, the joint research and training institute of Maastricht University and the United Nations University. He has 25+ years of experience in innovation studies and statistics for the European Commission, UN bodies, and national governments.
For over two decades, he has been the lead author of the European Innovation Scoreboard, the comparative statistical assessment of research and innovation performance in Europe. He has served on multiple European Commission expert groups on measuring innovation, sat on the Global Innovation Index Advisory Board (2015–2018), and since 2017 has been an Advisory Board member of the Global Knowledge Index.
Hollanders currently serves as Lead Knowledge Expert for the restructuring of the Global Knowledge Index.