Board

 

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Pieter Jan Wolthers * (Chairman)
Former Netherlands Ambassador (a.o. to Ukraine, Romania,
and the Republic of Moldova) 

Michel Krielaars * (Secretary)
Editor of the NRC Handelsblad Book Supplement. Former
foreign correspondent for NRC Handelsblad in Moscow

Thomas Simon *  (Treasurer)
Historian, former Director of ‘Netlaw advocatenkantoren’

Jan Willem Bos *
Literary translator, interpreter, and writer

* = Executive Board

 

ADVISORY BOARD

Michel Krielaars * (Chairman)
Editor of the NRC Handelsblad Book Supplement. Former foreign correspondent for NRC Handelsblad in Moscow

Dennis Deletant
Woodrow Wilson Public Policy Fellow, Emeritus Professor of Romanian Studies, the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London

Margot Dijkgraaf
Literary critic, and former Director of the Academic Cultural Centre SPUI25, Amsterdam

Laurens van Krevelen
Publisher, author, emeritus chairman of the Royal Dutch Book Trade Association KVB, Dr. P.A. Tiele-Stichting, and the Stichting Bibliotheek van het Boekenvak

Eric Metz
Assistant Professor of Translation Studies and East European Literatures, University of Amsterdam

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

Guido Snel
Writer and translator. Senior Lecturer at the Department of European Studies, University of Amsterdam

 

FORMER TRUSTEES


Max van der Stoel
In memoriam

3 August 1924 – 23 April 2011

CEEBP chairman 1995 – 1998

High Commissioner on National Minorities, Organisation for
Security & Cooperationin Europe

Laurens van Krevelen, chairman 1998 – 2001 & 2009 – 2010

Publisher, author, emeritus chairman of the Royal Dutch Book Trade
Association KVB, Dr.P.A. Tiele-Stichting, chairman of the Stichting
Bibliotheek van het Boekenvak

Kathinka Dittrich van Weringh, chair 2001-2003

International cultural advisor, Köln

Aad Nuis, chairman 2003 – 2006

18 July 1933 – 8 November 2007

Writer, vice-minister of Culture

Greetje van den Bergh, chair 2006 – 2009 and 2010 – March 2013

Translator and literary critic, former Vice-President of
the University of Amsterdam, President of The Netherlands Commission
for UNESCO

Jan Marinus Wiersma, chairman 2013 – 2018
Historian, former member of the European Parliament

Bronisław GeremekIn memoriam
6 March 1932 – 13 July 2008

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

College of Europe, Warsaw

György BenceIn memoriam

8 December 1941 – 28 October 2006

Professor of Philosophy at the Loránd Eötvös University of Budapest

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

Camiel Hamans, Treasurer
Linguist, journalist, Professor of Dutch linguistics, Adam Miczkiewicz
University at Poznan, Former Secretary general at the European
Parliament /Anne Vondeling Stichting

Jos de Beus In memoriam
27 November 1952 – 16 January 2013
Professor of Political Science,
University of Amsterdam

Mies Bouhuys

Writer and playwright, Amsterdam

Maarten Brands In memoriam

12 October 1933 − 12 March 2018
Director of the German Institute and Professor of Contemporary History,
University of Amsterdam

François Furet In memoriam

27 March 1927 –12 July 1997

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

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

Christiane Hardy In memoriam

27 July 1950 – 8 February 2013

Former Editor, Van Gennep, Querido, and Van Oorschot publishing houses,
Amsterdam

Jerzy Jedlicky

14 June 1930 – 31 January 2018
Historian, Warsaw
Institute for History at the Polish Academy of Science; Collegium Invisibile

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

Thomas Simon, Board Secretary 1998 – 2012
Historian, Director of ‘Netlaw advocatenkantoren’

Maria Vlaar
Deputy Director, Foundation for the Production and Translation of
Dutch Literature, Amsterdam; editor

Rudi Wester

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

Elizabeth Winter
Former Editor, Times Literary Supplement, London

FORMER ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS


Lord Ralf Dahrendorf
In memoriam

1 May 1929 – 17 June 2009

Coen Stork (Chairman and Honorary Chairman) – In memoriam (in Romanian)
28 March 1928 – 23 October 2017
Retired Dutch Ambassador (a.o. in Romania), Amsterdam

Sorin Alexandrescu

Professor of Roman Languages and Semiotics, University of Amsterdam

Hendrik Brugmans
13 December 1906 –12 March 1997

Emeritus Rector, Collège d’Europe, Bruges (1906 – 1997) In memoriam – see Newsletter No.1

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

Raymond Detrez
Professor Emeritus in East European History and Culture
KU University in Leuven and the University of Gent

Wolfgang Eichwede
Professor Emeritus in History, Forschungsstelle Osteuropa, University of Bremen

Robert Elsie In memoriam
29 June 1950 – 2 October 2017
Writer, translator, interpreter, specialist in Albanian studies

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

Martin Hála

Assistant Professor at the Charles University, Prague

Martin van den Heuvel
13 November 1931 – 13 April 2018

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

Chris Keulemans

Former Director of the Cultural Center De Balie, Amsterdam

Dragan Klaić In memoriam

27 April 1950 – 25 August 2011

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

Martin Mooij

Former Director of Poetry International

Thorsten Oestreich

Editor, Frankfurter Buchmesse

Katharina Raabe
Editor, Suhrkamp, Berlin

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

Per Wästberg

Writer and former President of International PEN

Max Weisglas

23 May 1921 – 18 March 2003

Professor of European Studies in Amsterdam and Antwerp


Willem Weststeijn
Professor of Russian and Slavonic Languages,
University of Amsterdam

Elizabeth Winter
Former Editor, Times Literary Supplement, London