Committee members

Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You is a lawyer and has been a member of the Netherlands’ Council of State. She previously chaired the committee which advised on the policy framework for dealing with cultural goods from a colonial context.

Laura Van Broekhoven is director of the Pitt Rivers Museum and Professor of Museum Studies, Ethics and Material Culture at the University of Oxford. Previously, she was Head of Curators at the Dutch National Museum of World Cultures. Her research focus includes restitution and decolonisation in museums, and her archaeological area of expertise is Central and South America.

Remco Raben is Professor of Colonial and Post-Colonial Literary and Cultural History at the University of Amsterdam and an associate professor at Utrecht University. Raben’s research interests include the history of Indonesia in the 20th century and post-colonial culture in the Netherlands.

Alicia Schrikker is a senior university lecturer of colonial and world history at Leiden University. As director of research she explores diverse aspects of the colonial past, with a particular focus on Asia. In recent years, she has gained extensive experience in conducting provenance research.