Professor Brinkhorst


Tel:                                     +31 (0)71 527 4647
Email:                                  l.j.brinkhorst@law.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty/Department:              Public law, Faculty of Law, 
                                           Leiden University 
Working address:                  Lange Voorhout 82 
                                           2514 EJ Den Haag 
                                           t. +31 (0)70 30 20 165 
                                           e. office@voorhout82.nl
Curriculum vitae
Laurens Jan Brinkhorst  

Mr. Brinkhorst currently serves as Professor in International and European Law and Governance at the University of Leiden. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Salzburg Global Seminar, originally an American institution of higher learning located in Austria. He is senior adviser to the European Space Agency and is a coordinator of the European Commission for a Trans European Network.  

Mr. Brinkhorst has had a long political, European and academic career. He was recently Minister of Economic Affairs and Minister of Agriculture. He was also a member of the Netherlands and European Parliaments. Earlier in his life, he served as Deputy Minister of European Affairs. With the European Union he served as EU- Ambassador to Japan and was subsequently DG for Environmental and Nuclear Safety.
In academia he has held chairs at Groningen, Leiden and Tilburg Universities.
24/4/2008