Management Structure
General Board
The General Board of the KLI consists of 6 members, a non-voting chairman, an external member, and a non-voting Ph.D. student member. It has ultimate responsibility with regard to research, teaching and budgetary decisions. The General Board delegates the daily running of the KLI to an Executive Committee consisting of the Scientific Director and three Adjunct Directors (responsible respectively for research, teaching, and impact).
Prof.dr. Bianca Beersma (VU)
Prof.dr. Kees van den Bos (UU)
Prof.dr. Astrid Homan (UvA)
Prof.dr. Kai Jonas (MU)
Prof.dr. Daan Scheepers (UL)
Eleni Giannakoudi, MSc. (RUG), PhD representative
Prof.dr. Janneke Oostrom (TiU)
Prof.dr. Marius van Dijke (RSM), External member
Executive Committee
The Executive Committee is responsible for taking all the relevant decisions, and shapes the scientific and educational policy of the KLI in consultation with and based on the advice of three formal bodies: the Teaching Committee, Research Committee and Impact Committtee. These committees report directly to the Executive Committee of the KLI on the co-ordination and planning of research training, on research proposals and student progress, and on impact initiatives and progress.
Prof.dr. Ilja van Beest (TiU), Research Director.
Dr. Gert-Jan Lelieveld (UL), Teaching Director
Teaching Committee
The Teaching Committee has primary responsibility for developing and evaluating the teaching programme. The committee consists of two members, a graduate student and the Teaching Director.
Dr. Maarten van Bezouw (UU)
Dr. Namkje Koudenburg (RUG)
Eleni Giannakoudi, MSc. (RUG), PhD representative
Research Committee
The Research Committee has primary responsibility for evaluating Ph.D. projects and proposals, for annual assessment of Ph.D. projects (based on reports from graduate students), and for the scientific programme of the KLI.
Dr. Iris van Sintemaartensdijk (University of Twente)
Dr. Barbara Nevicka (UvA)
Scientific Advisory Board
The Scientific Advisory Board consists of internationally respected experts in the domains covered by the KLI. It will evaluate the overall performance of the KLI as a graduate training institute. The members of this Board will visit the KLI once every 5-year period.
Dr. Jack Dovidio (Yale University)
Prof.dr. Klaus Fiedler (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
Prof.dr. Sabine Sonnentag (University of Mannheim)
KLI support staff
The KLI, its committees and its members are supported by the KLI support staff (based at Utrecht University). The general manager, Hannah Timmermans, is employed to assist the boards and committees of the KLI in the preparation and execution of the KLI policies. The General Manager is executive secretary of the Executive Committee, the Teaching Committee and the Research Committee. The KLI assistant, Zoë Tuinder, is responsible for the teaching and member administration.
PhD student representative
The PhD student representative (Eleni Giannakoudi MSc., RUG) attends both the meetings of the Teaching Committee and of the General Board.
Confidential advisor
The KLI’s confidential advisor is prof.dr. Ton Hol.
Read more about the advisor and about scientific integrity here.