I am an expert in development in areas affected by disaster, conflict or fragility, with a special focus on aid-society relations: the impact of humanitarian aid on society and the ways in which people and institutions shape the organisation of aid relations.

Current Positions

• Founder and director of The Hague Humanitarian Studies Centre
• Chair humanitarian studies, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam
• Honorary Director of Creged – Centre de Recherche et d’Expertise en Genre et Développement

Previous Positions

• President of the International Humanitarian Studies Association 
• 2006-2017  –  Special chair humanitarian aid and reconstruction, Wageningen University

Click here for other academic work I have done.

Non-academic focus areas

• Flying habits of myself and other development academics and practitioners and how we can address our problematic flying behaviour.
  – Blog:  It’s time for flying to become the new smoking.
  – See our public letter: Klimaatbrief Universiteiten 
• Mobbing in the workplace and what we can do to stop it
  – Blog on Joop.bnnvara.nl (Dutch): Stop de sociale jachtpartij die pesten heet
  – Op-Ed on Sublime: Thea Hilhorst: “Ik ben weggepest bij mijn werk”
  – TV appearance NPO Max – Pesten op het werk aangepakt?