Geert Hofstede - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

Geert Hofstede has received much recognition for his work in cross-cultural analysis. The Hanze University Groningen in the Netherlands established the Geert Hofstede Lecture, a bi-annual conference on topics of intercultural communication in 2004. In 2006, a Geert Hofstede Chair for Cultural Diversity was established at Maastricht University, and in 2010, the School of Business and Economics launched a fund named after Geert to encourage activities around multicultural interactions and research. In 2009 Reputation Institute, which "recognizes individuals who have greatly contributed to the field of reputation through both scholarship and practice", nominated Hofstede as the Best Scholar of the year.

• Honorary member, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Section of Economics and Law, 2010
• International Honorary Member, AIESEC
• Honorary Member, SIETAR Europe (Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research)
• 1992 Honorary Member, EFM Imperator (today: SCOPE Maastricht)
• Fellow, Academy of Management, United States
• 2006 Honorary Fellow, International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology
• 1998 Eminent Scholar, Academy of International Business, United States
• 2011 Awarded Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion (Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw)

• Honorary doctorates:
  • Nyenrode Business University, the Netherlands
  • New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
  • University of Gothenburg, Sweden
  • University of Liège, Belgium
  • ISM University of Management and Economics, Vilnius Lithuania
  • University of Pécs, Hungary (2009)

• Honorary professorships:
  • Hong Kong University 1992–2000
  • University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), Beijing, China
  • Renmin University of China, Beijing, China

In 2004, the Hanze University Groningen, the Netherlands established the Geert Hofstede Lecture, a bi-annual conference in the area of intercultural communication.

In 2006, Maastricht University, the Netherlands inaugurated a Geert Hofstede Chair in cultural diversity And in October 2010, Maastrich University School of Business and Economics launched the Geert Hofstede Fund, aiming at encouraging activities around multicultural interactions and research about the impact of cultural differences.

In 2008 six European universities united to create the Master in International Communication (MIC), Hanze University Groningen have named themselves the Geert Hofstede Consortium