- Co-chair Aids, Security and Conflict Initiative (ASCI)
- Chairman Academic Advisory Board Africa Studies Centre (ASC), Leiden
- Chairman Pugwash, The Netherlands
- Member Scientific Advisory Board Netherlands Defense Academy (NLDA)
- Member Global Change Committee KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy for Sciences)
- Member Scientific Advisory Board Care Netherlands, The Hague
- Member External Reference Group Evaluation (Dutch) Co-financing Programme (ERG)
- Member Seminar Committee National Commemoration Capitulations 1945, Wageningen
- Member Committee Foundation ‘Nationaal Erfgoed Hotel De Wereld’, Wageningen
- Member of Board Stichting Nederland-Sri Lanka (Netherlands-Sri Lanka Foundation)
- Member Steering Group Cultural Emergency Response Programme (CER) of the Prince Claus Fund
- Member Curatorium Special Chair on ‘Peacebuilding and the Rule of Law’, Utrecht University