Alumni meeting
Seminar SKOV - Implications of drastic changes in cooperation and dismantling of USAID
SKOV organises seminars in cooperation with Ipso-Facto on global development cooperation issues. Speakers at the meetings are often esteemed and expert Wageningen alumni. This time Emeritus Professor Joris Voorhoeve and Professor Thea Hilhorst are cooperating.
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On Monday 14 April 2025 at 16.30 pm SKOV, in cooperation with study association Ipso-Facto, will organise a seminar about the implications of the drastic changes in international cooperation and the dismantling of USAID. It is expected to impact development, peace and security.
Preliminary programme
| 16:30 h | Arrival, coffee, tea, water | |
| 16:45 h | Opening | Cor de Jong, president SKOV |
| 16:50 h | Introductions | Em. Prof. dr. Voorhoeve and prof. dr. Thea Hilhorst |
| Time for interactions | ||
| 18.00 h | Drinks and snacks | Time for informal exchange |
| 18.30 h | Closure |
Alumni speakers
Joris Voorhoeve, former Minister of Defence, em. Professor at various Universities in the domain of International Organisations and co-chair of the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict.
WUR-Tropical Land Management 1971.
Thea Hilhorst, Professor of Humanitarian Studies at the ISS, the Hague, and leading the project Humanitarian governance: accountability, advocacy, alternatives.
WUR-Agricultural sociology of Non-Western areas 1988 and promoted at WUR in 2000.