Speaker

Monika Sie Dhian Ho is General Director of the Clingendael Institute. She is also vice-president of the State Committee on Demographic trends 2050 and a lecturer at the Netherlands School of Public Administration in The Hague.

Monika studied and lectured political science at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and was lecturer in International Relations and International Political Economy at Leiden University.

At the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy, she worked as a researcher and project manager, focussing on the European Union, development cooperation, and democratic transition and consolidation. 

Prior to joining Clingendael, she was Director of the Wiardi Beckman Foundation, the social-democratic think tank in the Netherlands.