吉尔特·霍夫斯塔德是社会人文学博士,曾主管过IBM欧洲分公司的人事调查工作,荷兰马城大学国际管理系名誉教授,在欧洲多所大学任教,并担任香港大学荣誉教授,从事组织机构人类学和国际管理。1993年退休以后,他依然是香港、夏威夷、澳大利亚的一些大学的客座教授。他还担任Tilburg大学经济学研究中心的校外教授。现时还兼任世界银行、亚洲生产力组织和欧盟的顾问。他1984年发表的专著《文化的影响力》、1991年发表的专著《文化与主题:思想的远 Gert Hofstad is a Ph.D. in social humanities. He has been in charge of personnel investigation in IBM Europe. Honorary Professor of International Management at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands. He teaches at many universities in Europe and is honorary professor of Hong Kong University. Engaged in organizational anthropology and international management. After his retirement in 1993, he is still a visiting professor at universities in Hong Kong, Hawaii and Australia. He is also an outside-school professor at the Center for Economic Studies at Tilburg University. He is also currently a consultant for the World Bank, the Asian Productivity Organization and the EU. His monograph, “The Influence of Culture,” published in 1984, monograph published in 1991, Culture and Theme: Far from Thought