BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Laurens van Krevelen * (Chairman)

Publisher, author, emeritus chairman of the Royal Dutch Book Trade Association

Thomas Simon * (Secretary)
Director of Netlaw, Alkmaar

Camiel Hamans * (Treasurer)

Linguist, journalist, Secretary general at the European Parliament/Anne Vondeling Stichting

Jos de Beus *
Professor of Political Science,
University of Amsterdam

Robert Elsie

Writer, translator, interpreter,

specialist in Albanian studies

Timothy Garton Ash
Historian and writer,
Fellow of St. Anthony's College, Oxford

Christiane Hardy *
Editor, Van Oorschot, Amsterdam

Maria Vlaar *
Deputy Director, Foundation for the Production

and Translation of Dutch Literature, Amsterdam

Elizabeth Winter
Former Editor, Times Literary Supplement, London

* = Executive Board

ADVISORY BOARD

Coen Stork (Chairman)
Former Dutch Ambassador, Amsterdam

Dennis Deletant
Professor of Romanian Studies, the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London, and the University of Amsterdam

Raymond Detrez

Professor in History of the Balkan
KU University in Leuven and the University of Gent

Margot Dijkgraaf

Director of the Academic Cultural Centre SPUI25, Amsterdam, and literary critic

Wolfgang Eichwede
Professor in History, Forschungstelle Osteuropa,

University of Bremen

Raymond Georis
Managing Director of the Association for Innovative Cooperation in Europe, Brussels

Michel Krielaars
Editor, NRC Handelsblad, Amsterdam

Foreign correspondent in Moscow

Christina Pribicević Zorich
Literary translator, and former Chief of the Language Services at the Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague

Katharina Raabe
Editor, Suhrkamp, Berlin

FORMER TRUSTEES

Bronisław Geremek - In memoriam
6 March 1932 – 13 July 2008

Member of the European Parliament
Historian, Chair in European Civilisation,

College of Europe, Warsaw

Laurens van Krevelen

Publisher, author, emeritus chairman of the Royal Dutch Book Trade Association

Max van der Stoel

High Commissioner on National Minorities, Organisation for Security & Cooperation in Europe

Greetje van den Bergh
Translator and literary critic,
ex vice-president of the University of Amsterdam

Aad Nuis

Writer, vice-minister of Culture

György Bence

8 December 1941 - 28 October 2006

Professor of Philosophy at the Loránd Eötvös University of Budapest

Mies Bouhuys

Writer and playwright, Amsterdam

Maarten Brands

Director of the German Institute and Professor of Contemporary History, University of Amsterdam

François Furet

Writer, Director of the Centre de Recherches Politiques Raymond Aron, Paris

Kathinka Dittrich van Weringh

International cultural advisor, Köln

Jerzy Jedlicky

Historian, Warsaw

Eda Kriseová

Writer, Prague

Frank Ligtvoet

Director of the Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature, Amsterdam

Theo Quené

Chairman of the Council for Public Housing, Country Planning and Environmen­tal Management

Rudi Wester

Former Director, Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature, Amsterdam

Walter Baars (Treasurer)
Former General Director, ABN-Amro,
Amsterdam

FORMER ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS

Lord Ralf Dahrendorf - In memoriam

1 May 1929 – 17 June 2009

Hendrik Brugmans

Emeritus Rector, Collège d'Europe, Bruges

Richard Crampton
Professor Emeritus in History, Edmund Hall,
Oxford University

Martin Hála

Assistant Professor at the Charles University, Prague

Martin van den Heuvel

Journalist, slavist, lecturer in East European Studies at the University of Amsterdam, research fellow at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael

Chris Keulemans

Director of the Cultural Center De Balie, Amsterdam

Dragan Klaić

Director of the Theatre Institute and Professor of Dramaturgy, University of Amsterdam

Martin Mooij

Former Director of Poetry International

Thorsten Oestreich

Editor, Frankfurter Buchmesse

Nevenka Tromp-Vrkić

Lecturer in East European Studies, University of Amsterdam, and Research Fellow at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, The Hague

Sorin Alexandrescu

Professor of Roman Languages and Semiotics, University of Amsterdam

Per Wästberg

Writer and former President of International PEN

Willem Weststeijn

Professor of Russian and Slavonic Languages,

University of Amsterdam