Mirjam van Reisen
Countries of Expertise
Specialties
- Citizenship/Statelessness/Nationality
- Coercive Population Control
- Ethnic Discrimination/Persecution
- Forced Conscription
- Government/State Actor Persecution
- Political Persecution
- Prison Conditions
- Religious Discrimination/Persecution
About Mirjam van Reisen
Mirjam van Reisen is Professor International Relations, Innovation and Care at Tilburg University and Professor of FAIR Data Science at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) at Leiden University. Van Reisen is Research Leader of the Globalization, Accessibility, Innovation and Care (GAIC) network and Project Director for the Digital Innovation and Skills Hub (DISH), part of the Africa University Network on FAIR Open Science (AUN). Her teaching experience includes, among others, the University of Pavia, Tilburg University, Amsterdam University College, Leiden University and the College of Europe.
Van Reisen is the Director of the organisation Research Advisors and Experts Europe (RAEE) in Brussels. Van Reisen is the Principle Investigator of VODAN Africa. She is a Member of the Supervisory Board of PharmAccess.
Van Reisen was a member of the Dutch Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV) and Chair of the Development Assistance Committee (COS) from 2013 to 2020. She was a member of the Board of Philips Foundation and the SNV Netherlands Development Organisation until 2020.
Mirjam van Reisen has published extensively on Europe and international cooperation, human rights and human trafficking. She leads research into international human trafficking, international cooperation, the role of technology and big data and the position of women in peace building.
Van Reisen received the Golden Image Award in 2012 by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
