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  Annetje Ottow President of the Executive Board

  Annetje Ottow is President of the Leiden University Executive Board and Professor of Public Economic Law at the Faculty of Law.
  
  Follwoing her studies at Leiden University and Queen Mary College in London, Ottow worked in the legal profession for 16 years, first at De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek and later as a partner at Houthoff Buruma and obtained her PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 2006.
  
  In 2007, Ottow was appointed Professor of Public Economic Law at Utrecht University, where she served as Dean of the Faculty of Law, Economics, Governance and Organisation from 2014 to 2018, and as Vice President of the Executive Board from 2018 to 2021.
  
  At Leiden University her portfolio includes strategy, alliances, external and international relations, communication, dignity and respect, diversity and inclusion and Sustainability.
  
  She is also the contact person for the Leiden inner city campus and its development.

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  Corien Prins Chair of the Scientific Council for Government Policy

  Corien Prins is Professor of Law and Information Technology at Tilburg University. She studied Slavic Language and Literature (kandidaats) and law (kandidaats and doctoraal) at Leiden University, where she also obtained her PhD under Prof. Hans Franken and Dr. S. Levitsky of Columbia University.

  In April 2017, Prins was appointed the first female chair of the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR). She is also a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences (KNAW) and the Selection Advisory Committee for the Supreme Court of the Netherlands. She specialises in law and regulation of technology (ICT, digitalisation, artificial intelligence), privacy, cybersecurity, government information policy and electronic government.
   
  In 2023, Prins received a Stevin Prize, not only for her contributions to the development of law, technology and information technology, but also for policymaking in that area.

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  Hester Bijl Rector Magnificus

  Hester Bijl is Professor of Numerical Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute of the Faculty of Science. She is also a member of the TNO Supervisory Board and a commissioner for the Impuls Zeeland regional development agency. Bijl is also a member of the Leiden Bio Science Park board. 
   
  Hester Bijl studied Applied Mathematics at Delft University of Technology, where she also obtained a PhD in numerical mathematics in 1999. She also obtained a Master's degree in English Language and Literature from Leiden University. For her research on applications of numerical fluid dynamics in aerospace and wind energy technology, she received, among other things, person grants from NWO. She was a member of the first cohort of the KNAW Young Academy and also served on its board. Between 1999 and 2003, she was a visiting researcher at NASA Langley Research Center on several occasions.
   
  Before coming to Leiden in 2016, where she was appointed Vice-Rector Magnificus, Bijl spent 17 years at Delft University of Technology’s Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, where she eventually held the position of Dean.

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  Martijn Ridderbos Vice-chairman of the Executive Board

  Martijn Ridderbos RC studied business economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam and took the postgraduate controller course at VU University Amsterdam. After seven years at Moret Ernst & Young Consultancy, he was appointed Vice-President at Capgemini in 2001, where he managed an advisory group in the field of education, work and income. In 2008, he founded his own consulting firm.
   
  Ridderbos became Concern Director of Finances at the Public Prosecution Office (Openbaar Ministerie, OM) in 2013, a post which, from 2015, he combined with the position as General Director of the Service Centre of the OM. Here, his portfolio included finance, IT and facilities management.
   
  Between 2011 and 2017, Ridderbos was a lecturer in Public Management at Utrecht University, teaching the executive master’s Management van Publieke Vraagstukken (Management of Public Administration) and the masterclass in Leiderschap in Cultuur (Leadership in Culture), among others.
   
  As Vice-Chairman of the Executive Board of Leiden University, his portfolio includes finance , real estate, ICT and research infrastructure, HRM  and security at the university. He is also the point of contact for the development of Campus The Hague. 

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  Willem Otterspeer Professor emeritus of University History

  Prof. Willem Otterspeer is a historian, writer and emeritus Professor of University History at Leiden University.
   
  Otterspeer writes on subjects including the history of ideas and intellectual institutions. In 1992, he obtained his doctorate (cum laude) for his thesis De wiekslag van uw Geest about Leiden University in the 19th century.
   
  As a professor, he took on the task of writing a comprehensive historiography of the first four centuries of Leiden University. This project was completed in 2021 with the publication of the fourth volume of the Group Portrait with Lady series. In addition, as a university historian, he acted as an adviser to the Leiden University Executive Board on the university’s history, its identity and its future. Since retiring in 2016, Otterspeer has remained very active and in 2019 he published Het Horzelnest, a book about Leiden University during the Second World War.
   
  He has also published biographies of, among others, the philosopher G.J.P.J. Bolland, the historian Johan Huizinga and the author Willem Frederik Hermans. Otterspeer has received a number of awards for his work, including the Dr. Wijnaendts Francken Prize and the Eureka Prize for science communication.

The nominees

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  Marcus de Ruiter Professor Clinical and Experimental Anatomy

  Marcus de Ruiter is Professor of Clinical and Experimental Anotomy at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC).

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  Sepideh Saadat Lecturer

  Sepideh Saadat works in addiction psychiatry and teaches clinical courses.

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  Pieter Slaman Assistant Professor

  Pieter Slaman is the university historian, with the support of the A.E. Cohen Foundation. He also specialises in the history of education.