UCU Alumnus Caspar van den Berg '02 to become UNL Chairman

UCU Alunmus Caspar van den Berg '02 will assume chairmanship of the Universities of the Netherlands (UNL), an umbrella organization for Dutch Universities, taking over from predecessor Pieter Duisenberg on 1st June. Caspar van den Berg graduated from UCU in 2002, and completed a Masters at the London School of Economics and a PhD in public administration at Leiden University. Currently he serves as the Dean of Campus Fryslan at the University of Groningen, and also as a member of the Senate of the Netherlands.

Caspar van den Berg was the keynote speaker at University College Utrecht's 5th Lustrum in 2023, and the text of his keynote address can be found here. We congratulate and wish him every success in his new duties.