Jan Willem Duyvendak

Jan Willem Duyvendak is currently the Director of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS-KNAW) since January 2018 and serves as a Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam since September 2003. Duyvendak is also an Associate Fellow at the Institut français des relations internationales (IFRI) and a member of the International Editorial Board for the Journal of Sociology. Additional roles include Associate Member of the Urban Studies Initiative at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow there as well. Duyvendak has held leadership positions, such as Executive Committee Chair for the Council for European Studies and Chairman of the Dutch Sociological Association. Previous experience includes being a Research Fellow at the Paris Institute for Advanced Study, a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley, and Director of the Verwey-Jonker Institute. Duyvendak earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Amsterdam and holds Master’s degrees in Sociology and Philosophy from the University of Groningen and EHESS.