Mees Lammers is a PhD candidate in the Enduring Empire project. His research examines whether, and in what ways, early colonialism by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries still affects the socio-economic structures of current-day Java, Indonesia.
His research combines newly digitised VOC sources with applied econometrics and AI techniques to uncover large-scale links between early colonial activities and present-day socio-economic development.
He holds a Master’s degree in Economic History from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor’s degree in History from the University of Amsterdam. His main interest lies in the colonial origins of global economic inequality.
