BIOGRAPHY

Joris Voorhoeve, Ph.D., is Lector in International Peace, Law and Security at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Professor of International Organisations at Leiden University, member of the Dutch Advisory Council on International Affairs and Director of Studies at the Amartya Sen Foundation for Research and Education in International Cooperation. He chairs the Board of Supervisors of Oxfam International and is Co-chair of the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict. Joris was Director of the Institute of International Relations Clingendael and Minister of Defence in the Netherlands (1994-1998). Between 2007 and 2013, he was also chairman of the Supervisory Board of Oxfam Novib in the Netherlands. Joris is the initiator of The Third Hague Peace Conference.