Due to restrictions as a result of the coronavirus, the inaugural of Dr Gustavo García López has been postponed. We do not yet have a new date but will communicate it as soon as we do. We have temporarily suspended registration to this event, we will re-open it as soon as we have set a…

As of 1 September 2018, Dr Veena Srinivasan will hold the Prince Claus Chair at Utrecht University for her research into sustainable and inclusive food production in Asian delta regions. With this position, Srinivasan is keen to not only contribute to delta and food research being conducted in Utrecht, but also to play a role…

Young scientists are making a difference in the development of the global south On 12 April, the Prince Claus Chair celebrated its fifteenth anniversary. In the presence of Her Majesty Queen Máxima and Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands, chairholders, post docs and other guests discussed the ideas of the late Prince Claus…

As of the 1st of September 2017 Dr. Ali Bilgiç will hold the Prince Claus Chair (PCC) for a period of two years at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS). His thematic focus will be on ‘Migration and Human Security’. As holder of the Prince Claus Chair, professor Bilgiç will focus on the relations…

On Monday 23 May 2016, Professor Saradindu Bhaduri gave his inaugural lecture as Prince Claus Chair holder 2015-2016. In his lecture, entitled ‘Frugal innovation by “the small and the marginal”: an alternative discourse on innovation and development’, Bhaduri discussed the current discourse on frugal innovations, making the point innovations made with the global North in…

Dr. Fatima Suleman, associate professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, has been appointed to the Prince Claus Chair of Development and Equity as of 1 September 2016. During the next two years, she will be conducting research in affordable (bio)therapeutics in collaboration with scholars at Utrecht University. “I am…

Professor Fatima Suleman has formally accept her appointment to the Prince Claus Chair in Development and Equity 2016/2018. She has delivered her inaugural address, entitled: “Affordability and equitable access to (bio)therapeutics for public health” on the 16th of May 2017 in the University Hall (Academiegebouw). Dr. Fatima Suleman, associate professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the…

On 18 May 2015 Her Royal Highness Queen Máxima attended Javier Couso’s inaugural address ‘The observance of human rights requires an independent justice system’ Who protects the people of Latin America against the government? This is the key question in Professor Javier Couso’s inaugural address which he will be holding at Utrecht University on 18…

The Hague, 7 September 2015 As of the 1st of September 2015 dr. Saradindu Bhaduri will hold the new Prince Claus Chair (PCC) for a period of two years. His thematic focus will be on ‘Frugal Innovation for Development and Equity’, a topic on which dr. Bhaduri holds an excellent academic record. Frugal Innovation is a new…

Professor Javier A. Couso, professor and director of the Constitutional Law programme at the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile, has been appointed to the Prince Claus Chair of Development and Equity as from 1 September. During the next two years, he will be conducting comparative law research in collaboration with scholars at Utrecht University. Couso…