Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research  (NWO)\

Director Social Sciences (MaGW), director Science for Global Development (WOTRO)  and director National Initiative Brain and Cognition (NIHC).

Expertise: strategy development in the field of social and behavioural sciences, aimed at inter- and multidisciplinary cooperation; setting up and co-funding multilateral, multidisciplinary research programmes and networks, both within Europe as well as beyond.  Dissemination and valorization of knowledge.

Memberships 2014:
•    Executive Committee International Social Science Council (ISSC, UNESCO)
•    Coordinator NORFACE II, EU ERANET for the Social Sciences (scientific  cooperation between research councils in 17 countries)
•    Coordinator Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe (research cooperation between organisations in 13 countries)
•    Co-chair of the Trans-Atlantic Platform for the Social Sciences and Humanities (EU funded)
•    Joint Working Committee Scientific Cooperation Indonesia Netherlands
•    Supervisory Board Terre des Hommes Netherlands (aimed at improving the living conditions of disadvantaged children).

Research interests:
•    political dynamics, (de)centralization processes, early states, fragile states
•    Southeast Asia
•    sustainability and social sciences
•    knowledge management.

Websites:
http://www.nwo.nl/en/about-nwo/organisation/nwo-divisions/magw
https://www.hersenenencognitie.nl/?locale=en
http://www.nwo.nl/en/about-nwo/organisation/nwo-divisions/wotro