Management Team

Anje Dijk

Director

'I’ve noticed that you can achieve a great deal by being open to differences, by giving yourself and others the space to truly connect with each other, and by looking for similarities.'

Anna Nysingh

Civic integration coordinator
Teacher of Dutch for non-native speakers
Interim Head of the Dutch Section

Berna de Boer

Head of the Dutch Section
Lecturer of Dutch
Interim Head of the English Section

"Language and cultural knowledge are closely intertwined. Numerous encounters with foreigners have taught me to look at the Netherlands through their eyes, which has often led me to make changes in my approach.”

Jeroen van Engen

Head of the Modern Foreign Languages Section
Lecturerin Dutch for non-native speakers
Coordinator Online Dutch

'By learning a language you discover a new culture; in a way, you reinvent yourself. In an intercultural environment, this is a fascinating "growth process".'

Michaela Carrière

Project Leader & Trainer Intercultural Competence
Global Nomad (India, Indonesia, and the USA, Burma and Bangladesh, the rest of the time in the Netherlands)

'I’m intrigued by the unrecognised power of the liminal, the space in between things, the period of transition, the socially ambiguous status of those who belong everywhere and nowhere, the realm of pure possibility where novel configurations of ideas and relations may arise. That is the power of the intercultural.'

Language Centre