Professor Wim van den Doel, a Trustee of the Europaeum and Chair of the Europaeum Academic Council, talks to our Executive Director, Anthony Teasdale about his life and views on the future of the Europaeum in the second of our interview series.
Wim van den Doel – Europaeum Interviews, Episode 2
Host: Anthony Teasdale, Executive Director of the Europaeum
Biography
Wim van den Doel has been Dean of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Universities alliance since February 2020 and Professor of History at Leiden University since 2004. He received his PhD at Leiden University in 1994 and published mainly on the history of the Dutch East Indies. In 2021 he published a biography of Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, one of the first Western scholars visiting Mecca and one of the most important colonial administrators of his time.
From 2007 to 2017 he was dean of the faculty of Humanities of Leiden University and from 2017 to 2020 he was member of the Executive Board of the Dutch Research Council, chair of the domain Social Sciences and Humanities and responsible for National Research Agenda.
He has been involved with the Europaeum for many years.
