GIJS VAN HENSBERGEN is a Dutch art historian, food critic and Hispanist. A former Harry Ransom Research Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, van Hensbergen is now a Fellow at the LSE. He has given lectures across the world, including at the Museo del Prado, the University of Oxford, the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute and the Smithsonian in New York, the National Gallery in London and at the prestigious El Escorial summer school, Universidad Complutense, Madrid.
He appears frequently on BBC Four and Radio 4, TV3 and TV España and has contributed to, among many others, the Guardian, The Times, El País, La Vanguardia and the Economist. Gijs van Hensbergen leads specialist guided tours to Spain and the United States.