Harmen van Paradijs

Harmen van Paradijs is Vice President of the Human Sciences Publishing Group at Springer Nature, based in Singapore. He has global responsibility for the editorial teams in Humanities and Social Sciences for both the Springer as well as the Palgrave imprints.

Harmen received his Master of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

Upon obtaining his degree he joined McGraw-Hill Publishing Company as a sales representative in the Netherlands, and later as marketing manager in England.

He returned to the Netherlands to join Pearson Education and held various marketing and sales roles.

Harmen joined Springer in the Netherlands in 2005 as publishing editor Education. In 2012 he moved to Singapore to set up the editorial office for South-East Asia.