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...See more

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. See less