The Cheetah Challenge – winners of the thesis competition

The PCC 10th anniversary celebrations on 28 November also hosted the Cheetah Challenge prize giving.

Organized by the NCDO in association with the PCC, the Cheetah Challenge was a thesis competition about international cooperation for masters students and young researchers.

The prize winners

First prize

Lisanne Heemskerk (Utrecht University, International development studies, 2012) with the thesis ‘How responsible is responsible business?’.

Runner up prizes

Annemarie Groot Kormelinck (Radboud University Nijmegen, Development Studies, 2010) with the thesis: ‘Back to the birthplace of the bean’.

Nienke van der Have (University of Amsterdam,  International and European Law,  2011) with the thesis: ‘The right to development and state responsibility’.

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