Stephan Egbert Arie van Galen
policy advisor
Curriculum vitae
| 1971 | born in Heemskerk on 12 May |
| 1983-1989 | Rynlands Lyceum Oegstgeest and Strabrecht College |
| 1989-1995 | studied history (MA), Leiden University |
| 1992-1993 | studied imperial history at King’s College, London |
| 1995-1996 | studied South Asian history with VSB-scholarship (MA), SOAS London |
| 1996 | research assistant (Arakan studies), Oriental and India Office Collections of the British Library; fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society |
| 1997-2000 | PhD research Leiden University |
| 2001 | editor for mainland Southeast Asia with the Newsletter of the IIAS, Leiden |
| 2000-2003 | policy advisor for Quality Assurance later for Research Policy, with the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (Vereniging van Universiteiten, VSNU) |
| 2003-2010 | policy advisor, with the Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (Nederlands Vlaamse Accreditatieorganisatie, NVAO), The Hague |
| 2007-present | coordinator 2e phase accreditation, NVAO |
| 2008 | PhD under the supervision of D.H.A. Kolff, Leiden University |
| 2014-present | chief policy officer and secretary of the executive committee, NVAO |
Publications
2002 “Arakan at the turn of the first millennium of the Arakanese Era.” In: Jos Gommans and Jacques Leider (eds), The maritime frontier of Burma: exploring political, cultural and commercial interaction in the Indian Ocean world, 1200-1800, Leiden: KITLV, pp. 151-162.
2005 “Slaves and tyrants: the impact of Dutch demand on the Bengal slave market in the seventeenth century.” In: S. Chutinantarond (ed.), Rakhine history conference at the Chulalongkorn University 2005, Chulalongkorn University Press Bangkok, pp.
2006 “The Anglo-Burmese wars” and “British Burma.” In: The Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism, MacMillan-Thompson-Gale, pp.
2008 Arakan and Bengal: the rise and decline of the Mrauk U kingdom (Burma) from the fifteenth to the seventeeth century AD, [s.l.]. – PhD thesis Leiden; also published as e-book.