The LNVH is led by a committed and engaged board of seven members who bring energy, expertise, and a shared passion for advancing gender equality in academia. With relatively short terms and regular rotation, the board continuously welcomes new perspectives while staying closely connected to the community it serves.
We aim for a balanced representation across disciplines, institutions, and backgrounds. At the same time, former board members remain part of our extended network, offering their experience and insight to support thoughtful and informed decision-making.
The board works in close partnership with the LNVH bureau, ensuring that ideas are translated into meaningful actions and lasting impact.
board member since December 2023 and Chair since April 2024
Yvonne Benschop is Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Institute for Management Research at Radboud University, the Netherlands. She has a background in political science and in business adminstration. She is the director of the interdisciplinary research group Gender and Power in Politics and Management. Inspired by feminist organization theories and critical management studies, she studies formal and informal organization processes that produce organizational inequalities, and interventions to change these processes and inequalities.
She currently works on sustaining organizational change to intersectional equality in research and innovation organizations within the Horizon Europe funded Centre of Excellence on Inclusive Gender Equality, INSPIRE. She has received multiple grants from Horizon Europe, Horizon 2020, FP7, ESF-EQUAL, NWO-STW, several Ministries in the Netherlands and Flanders, and private organizations for her work on the responsibility of organizations for gender equality, diversity and inclusion. She was Co-Editor in Chief of Organization between 2015- 2020, sits on the Distinguished Advisory Board of Gender, Work and Organization, and serves on the editorial boards of several other journals, including Organization Theory, British Journal of Management and Human Relations.
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board member since December 2022
Annelien De Dijn is professor of Modern Political History at Utrecht University. She was educated at the University of Leuven in Belgium and at Columbia University. After that, she was a professor of political theory at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands as well as a NIAS Senior Research Fellow (2015-2016). Trained as a historian of political thought, her research focuses on the history of democracy, freedom, and political ideas in Europe and the United States from the eighteenth century to the present. She combines intellectual and political history to examine how political concepts and institutions have been shaped over time.
Annelien is the author of several influential books, including Freedom: An Unruly History, which traces the changing meaning of freedom from antiquity to the present and received the 2021 PROSE Award for Philosophy. Before joining Utrecht University in 2018, she held research and teaching positions at institutions including Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Notre Dame, and University of Amsterdam. She is a widely recognised expert on the history of democracy and political thought and regularly contributes to public and academic debates on freedom, democracy, and democratic resilience.
board member since July 2024
Neelke Doorn is professor of Ethics of Water Engineering at Delft University of Technology. With backgrounds in Civil Engineering, Philosophy, and Law, and ten years of experience as a research engineer at the water research institute Deltares, her current work focuses on moral questions in water engineering, policy, and climate change. She combines philosophical approaches with empirical investigations and modelling techniques.
Neelke has received multiple European and national grants, including two grants from the NWO talent programme for projects on ‘The ethics of flood risk management’ (Veni) and on ‘Responsibility arrangements in resilience policy for climate adaptation’ (Vidi). She is a research fellow in the 10-year Gravitation project ‘Ethics of socially disruptive technologies’. Between 2014 and 2020, she served as co-Editor-in-Chief of Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, the journal of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. She is regularly invited to advisory committees for her expertise at the intersection of technology and ethics.
board member since April 2026
Hannah Dugdale is Professor of Evolutionary Medicine and a Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES), University of Groningen. She is an evolutionary biologist researching why individuals age differently. She was an NWO Athena Award 2024 recipient for outstanding female researchers and a TopX Females to Follow Finalist 2024. She is Associate Editor for Bird Conservation International, a confidential advisor for the Netherlands Society for Evolutionary Biology, and a council member of the European Society of Evolutionary Biology (ESEB, 2023-2027).
Hannah demonstrated gender bias in invited speakers at ESEB congresses and co-established the ESEB Equal Opportunities Committee, which she chaired for 5 years, implementing practices to remove this bias. Previously, at the University of Leeds (UK), she was a member of the Faculty of Biological Sciences’ Athena Swan Working Group that co-won the Athena Swan Silver Award for demonstrating the Faculty’s gender-equality work.
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