Yves Jorens

Yves Jorens is senior full professor of (European) social law and social criminal law at Ghent University, Belgium. He has an extensive track record in managing large-scale European projects dealing with European social security and labour issues of migrant persons and issues related to social dumping and social fraud. His main domains of research are: the coordination of social security for migrant workers, posting, cross-border employment, social dumping, combatting social fraud and social dumping and the employment situation in the aviation sector. Professor Jorens is currently also director of IRIS│international research institute on social fraud, a knowledge centre that gathers relevant information of regional, national and international interest regarding social fraud in the broadest sense of the word. IRIS constitutes a unique corporation platform between the academic world on the one hand and the different actors involved in the fight against social fraud on the other. He is co-founder and director of LIISA (Lab for International & Interdisciplinary Social Affairs) Ghent University and Honorary Professor School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham.