Monika Sie Dhian Ho is General Director of the Clingendael Institute. She also lectures at the Netherlands School of Public Administration in The Hague and is Vice Chair of the European Integration Committee of the Netherlands Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV). Ms Sie Dhian Ho studied and lectured political science at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and was lecturer in International Relations and International Political Economy at Leiden University. At the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy, she worked as a researcher and project manager from 1997-2007, focusing on the European Union, development cooperation, and democratic transition and consolidation. She was director of the Wiardi Beckman Foundation, the social-democratic think tank in the Netherlands, from 2008-2016.