About Yvonne Donders

Prof. Dr. Yvonne Donders is Professor of International Human Rights at the Department of International and European Law at the University of Amsterdam. She is one of the Principal Investigators (PI) of the UvA's Research Priority Area Shaping Interfaces Between Science and the Public. She is also an elected member of the UN Human Rights Committee.

Her research interests include public international law; international human rights law, in particular economic, social and cultural rights and human rights and cultural diversity. Her current research focuses on the right to science.

Previously Yvonne Donders was Director of the Amsterdam Graduate School (2023-2025) and Head of the Department of International and European Law (2015-2022) and Director of the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL 2008-2015). She also worked as Commissioner at the Netherlands Human Rights Institute (2019-2022). Prior to joining the University of Amsterdam, she worked as a Programme Specialist on human rights at UNESCO HQ in Paris (2003-2007).

Yvonne Donders is a member (and former chair) of the Steering Committee of the Netherlands Network of Human Rights Research (NNHRR), Member of the Editorial Board and Executive Editor of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (NQHR). Previous memberships include: chair of the Advisory Board of the project “Shelter City” for human rights defenders; member of the Human Rights Committee of the Advisory Council on International Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (AIV), member of the Board of the Royal Netherlands Society of International Law (KNVIR), and Chair of the Dutch United Nations Association (Nederlandse Vereniging voor de Verenigde Naties, NVVN).

Program

The SciSis Meet session will be moderated by Lidwien Poorthuis, managing director and senior policy advisor at the Dutch Network of Women Professors (LNVH).