2014 - 2022 President of the Executive Board - Wageningen UR - Wageningen
2006 - 2014, July 1st - University Professor - University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam
2009 Non-Executive Director & member Corporate Responsibility and Reputation Committee - Unilever
Professor at Wageningen University
Fields of Scholarship
Tropical agriculture
Honours and Awards
2014- Corresponding member - Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences, the Section of Technical Sciences - Brussels
2013- Distinguished Visiting Scholar Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAF) Pretoria
2012- Foreign member - Académie d'Agriculture de France - Paris
2009- Member - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences - Amsterdam
2000- Corresponding member - Spanish Real Academia de Ingeniería - Madrid
2000- Foreign member - Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry - Stockholm
2000-Member - Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities - Haarlem
Other current activities
2013- Member - Advisory Board - Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food in the Low Countries
2010- Member - Board - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - Amsterdam
2010- Advisor - Office Chérifien des Phosphates (Groupe OCP) - Morocco2010- Member - Council of Advisors - World Food Prize - Des Moines - U.S.A.
2006 Member - International Trilateral Commission - France | U.S.A | Japan
2006 Member - Board - Praemium Erasmianum Foundation - the Netherlands
Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry (based in Stockholm), a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain (based in Madrid), a member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities and a foreign member of the French Academy of Agriculture
Distinguished Visiting Scholar of the Academy of Science of South Africa
Corresponding member of Belgium's Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences
Nearly ten years service as Assistant-Director General at the a Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN, spent extensive periods in Africa, Asia and Latin America. She is also a member of the Trilateral Commission. In 2014 the EU Commission asked her to chair the Evaluation of the Seventh Framework Program for Research