Annetje Ottow Professor

Annetje Ottow is President of the Executive Board of Leiden University and professor of Public Economic Law at the Faculty of Law.
 
After her studies at Leiden University and Queen Mary College in London, she worked in the legal profession for 16 years, first at De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek and later as a partner at Houthoff Buruma and obtained her PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 2006.
 
In 2007, Ottow was appointed professor of Public Economic Law at Utrecht University. Here, she served as dean of the Faculty of Law, Economics, Governance and Organisation from 2014 to 2018, and as Vice President of the Executive Board from 2018 to 2021.

At Leiden University her portfolio includes Strategy, Alliances, external and international relations, Communication, Social safety, Diversity and inclusion and Sustainability.

She is also the contact person for the (development of the) Leiden inner city campus.

Jan Willem Erisman Professor

Jan Willem Erisman is professor Enviromental Sustainability within the Institute of Environmental Sciences of Leiden University. He is member of the Health Council of the Netherlands (Gezondheidsraad) and a member of the Council of Animal Affairs (Raad voor Dierenaangelegenheden). Jan Willem obtained his PhD on atmospheric deposition of acidifying compounds in the Netherlands in 1992 at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. In 2009 he was appointed as extraordinary professor on Integrated Nitrogen Studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
 
It is Jan Willem Erisman’s ambition to contribute to sustainable development of our society. He has done this through developing a career in science, management and commercialisation of technology, all ingredients necessary to fulfil this ambition.
 
His work starts with a system view and he uses participatory approaches to work towards practical solutions for pressing societal issues such as sustainable agriculture, food and health, energy and nature conservation. His research has been focused on environmental sciences, climate, biodiversity, nature conservation, energy transition, food production and sustainability of resource use and circularity. He acted independently to help find and implement solutions for sustainability issues using science and fact based integral multidisciplinary approaches.

Chris Suijker Deputy Director Expertise Centre Real Estate

Chris Suijker was appointed Deputy Director of the Real Estate Directorate with effect from 1 July 2023. She worked previously as programme manager for the Humanities Campus, and earlier this year became Head of Energy & Sustainability at the Real Estate Directorate. This department translates the university’s ambitions for energy savings, circularity, mobility, biodiversity, climate adaptation and water efficiency into plans that can be implemented within the available investment margins.

Suijker’s role is to promote discussion and cooperation on these themes within Real Estate and the faculties and units. She is also responsible for monitoring and accountability to the Executive Board and to the government. Suijker believes good communication is essential to achieve change.

Peter van Bodegom Professor

Peter van Bodegom is professor of Environmental Biology and professor of  Circular International Horticulture Systems within the Institute of Environmental Sciences. He investigates biodiversity and ecosystem patterns to support transitions to a sustainable society.

Allard de Graaf obtained a master’s degree in Governance of Sustainability (Leiden University), a combination of environmental sciences and policy studies, focusing on the most pressing sustainability topics, such as climate change, circular economy and water management. From this background he presented a paper based on BuurtLab070, as an example of what could be gained if neighbourhood and university joined hands. In BuurtLab070, scientists and residents jointly try to reach solutions for a sustainable way of living.

Jiahui Plomp is a Company Law research intern at Leiden University. She explores the relation between law and sustainability and organised the lecture series Sustainability & Law for students at the Leiden University Law Faculty.

Laura Hommes is a fourth year student at Leiden University College, studying Earth, Energy & Sustainability. For her last semester, she just started a internship at a marine research institute studying seagrass growth in the German Wadden Sea. Next to university, she is co-chairing a working group called ‘save our oceans’ and also started the webpage Sustainable The Hague with a group of other students in 2021. 

Kirsty Rolfe University Lecturer

Kirsty Rolfe is a university lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. Her research focuses on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, in particular news, political writing, and gender.

Paul Gobée Docent Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum

Paul Gobée is a physician, anatomy teacher and e-learning developer, amongst others of CASK (Clinical Anatomical Skills), a series of interactive e-learning lessons for medical students of anatomy and for surgeons.

Frank Takes Associate professor/Director of Education

Frank Takes is an Associate professor/Director of Education, whose main fundamental research interest is computational network science, focused on methods and algorithms for knowledge discovery from (social) network data.