The Committee has four permanent members, Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You (chair), Laura Van Broekhoven, Remco Raben and Alicia Schrikker (members). The Minister appoints members for a term of no more than four years. Members may be reappointed only once for a second term not exceeding four years.
Lilian Gonçalves-Ho KangYou 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.
Additional member
In addition to the permanent members, an additional member may be temporarily appointed to the Committee to provide the expertise required in relation to a specific request. The Committee may also consult experts and initiate its own research as required.
Paleoanthropologist Dr. Rick Potts founded and directs the Human Origins Program at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, where he also holds the Peter Buck Chair in Human Origins. In partnership with the National Museums of Kenya, Potts leads ongoing excavations in southern and western Kenya. Since 1994, he has also conducted field projects in southeastern and northern China. After receiving his PhD in biological anthropology at Harvard University in 1982, he taught at Yale before joining the Smithsonian in 1985. Potts’s research investigates Earth’s environmental dynamics and the origin of human adaptations.
Secretariat
Jona Mooren and Meehea Park are secretary to the committee. You can contact them at info@kolonialecollecties.nl.
