New WOTRO chair
29 June 2006
Prof. Willem van Genugten has been appointed as new chair of the WOTRO board, with effect from July 1st 2006. Prof. Van Genugten succeeds prof. Martin Kropff (Wageningen University).
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Willem van Genugten (1950) is professor of International Law at Tilburg University and is Chair of the standing advisory committee on human rights of the Dutch government (part of the Advisory Council on International Affairs) and of the board of Netherlands School of Human Rights Research. |
Prof. Van Genugten wrote an impressive range of books and articles on a variety of development issues such as poverty and human rights, developments in international economic law, and the rights of indigenous peoples. Recently he was co-author of the book The United Nations of the Future; Globalization with a Human Face (KIT Publishers, 2006).
The views of van Genugten concerning ‘science for development’ are fully in
line with the WOTRO strategy. Van Genugten considers that it is in the interest
of the developing countries themselves as well as the world as a whole to give
all due attention to problems of developing countries, be it in the field of
poverty and hunger, the non-existence of adequate health care systems, the
degradation of the environment, or access to global markets. Due to his profile
in the areas of global governance, international law and human rights, it is
expected that Prof. van Genugten can broadly position WOTRO and can establish
fruitful linkages with other NWO fields.
The composition of the WOTRO board is now as follows:
- Prof. Willem van Genugten, chair (Tilburg University, Faculty of Law, International and European public law)
- Prof. Ken Giller (Wageningen University and Research Centre, Plant Sciences, Group Plant Productions Systems)
- Prof. Joyeeta Gupta (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Institute of Environmental Studies & IHE)
- Prof. Gerti Hesseling (Leiden University, African Studies Centre)
- Prof. Robert Sauerwein (Radboud University Nijmegen Medical
Centre,
Medical Microbiology) - Prof. Ton Dietz (University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Livelihoods, Environment and Governance)
