Louk de la Rive Box

(1942) was co-founder and treasurer of the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development. He studied sociology at the University of Amsterdam and in the United States where he took his Ph.D. in the Columbia University. In 1972 he ruturned to The Netherlands and worked for the section Non-Western Agricultural Sociology of the University Wageningen. From 1989 to 1993 he worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the department development cooperation. Box was director of the European Centre for Development Policy Management from 1993 to 2000. In 2000 he became professor of International cooperation at the University of Maastricht, and in 2005 he succeeded professor Opschoor as rector of the Institute of Social Studies.