Bent Greve is a professor of welfare state analysis at the Department of Society and Globalization, Roskilde University, Denmark. He has been the Danish expert to several European Union Commission studies on financing and its implications, social and labor market policies, gender, tele-working, and free movement of workers. He is also regional and special issues editor of Social Policy & Administration. He has written several books and articles on welfare states, and, also the first edition of Historical Dictionary of the Welfare State.