Jill E. Adler, JD
International Law, Grant Writing, & Fundraising
Marije L. Balt, MA
Diplomacy
Maarten Biermans, PhD
Maarten Biermans (1974) is responsible for the Sustainable Capital Market Solutions at Rabobank. With the issuance of Green Bonds and Sustainability linked loans, he helps with advancing sustainable finance across the globe.
Before joining the bank Rabobank as the head of ESG policy, Biermans worked as a strategy consultant specializing in Responsible Investing within the alternative asset classes.
Biermans has dual master's degrees in Economics and Philosophy from the University of Amsterdam, where he also obtained his PhD in Economics. While working on his dissertation, he was a visiting scholar at Stanford University.
Biermans is a member of the Excom of the Green Bond Principles and the UNEP FI Social Issues Advisory Board, and is a board member of the Netherlands Network of the UN Global Compact. He also contributes to the international think tanks on improving and advancing the link between sustainability and capital markets. He frequently teaches at various institutions of higher learning on topics such as international political economy, microeconomics and business ethics.
Bram Boxhoorn, PhD
Transatlantic Security Issues
Iwona Guść, PhD
Cultural History and Literature
Piotr Perczynski, PhD
Political Theory
Naya Pessoa, JD
Political Science
Nives Rumenjak, PhD
Coordinator for International Relations graduate program
Nives Rumenjak, PhD, has more than 20 years of transnational experience in research and teaching of modern history, politics, international relations and human rights. She is the head of the International Relations Department at Webster Leiden Campus, focusing on experiential education for multilateralism, social justice, sustainability and human rights. Currently, Rumenjak serves as associate of the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, and she is a fellow of Webster University’s Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies. As a part of the editorial board of the Connections for Sustainability Journal, she promotes scholarly research on sustainable development. Rumenjak regularly participates in the European Social Science History Conference, and the Convention of Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies. Previously, Rumenjak held a research position at the Croatian Institute of History in Zagreb, where she published two books on modern nationalization and sociohistorical prosopography of the Serbian elite in Croatia. Her most recent article, titled "Freedom of expression in multicultural societies: Political cartooning in Europe in the modern and postmodern eras," is published in "Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication" (EJPC 10.2). Rumenjak has taught a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses, including BA and MA theses, The World System Since 1500, Human Rights: Freedom of Expression, Imperialism Past and Present, Global Civil Society, History of Genocide in Modern and Contemporary World, Racism and Slavery in the Modern World History, and International Political Economy.
Rumenjak obtained her PhD, MA and BA, all in History, from the University of Zagreb.
Daniel Russell, LLM
International Law
Naema Tahir, PhD
Law, Society, and Justice
Nevenka Tromp, PhD
Global Justice
Tromp received her PhD from the University of Amsterdam. She has been teaching in the Department of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam since 1992 and in the Department of International Relations at Webster Leiden Campus since 2018. From 2000 to 2012, Tromp worked as a researcher for the Leadership Research Team in the Office of Tribunal's Prosecutor at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and she was principle researcher on history and politics in the trial of Slobodan Milošević. She is co-founder and executive director of the Geoffrey Nice Foundation on Law, History, Politics, and Society in the Context of Mass Atrocities. Tromp's interdisciplinary research explores the interplay between law, justice, history, politics and society. She teaches on the following subjects: theories and history of human rights, humanitarianism in international relations, post-conflict societies, legal response to mass atrocities, and history and politics of post-communist Europe.
Tromp's recent publications include "Smrt u Hagu: nezavršeno suđenje Slobodanu Miloševiću" (Sarajevo: Sarajevo University Press, 2019); "In Search for Truth at Mass Atrocities Trials: Will Lawyers and Judges Have the Last Word?" (The International Journal for Comparative Law, March, 2018); "Montenegro and NATO membership: an achievement and a risk?" (Internationale Spectator, Clingendael, The Hague, May, 2017); "Profile: Montenegro's game-changing leader Milo Đukanović" (Internationale Spectator, Clingendael, The Hague, May, 2017); "International Criminal Tribunals and Cooperation with States: Serbia and the Provision of Evidence for the Slobodan Milošević Trial at the ICTY," co-authored with Geoffrey Nice, in Margaret de Guzman and Diane Amann (Eds.), Arcs of Global Justice: Essays in Honor of William A. Schabas (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2017); "Criminal Trial as a Tool to Re-Write History" in Karčić, H. et al. (Eds.), Remembering Bosnian Genocide: Justice, Memory and Denial (Sarajevo: Institute for Islamic Tradition of Bosniaks, 2016); Prosecuting Slobodan Milošević: The Unfinished Trial (Routledge: London, 2016).