2022 – 2023
Chair of the Commission Social Minimum
2015 – 2022
Chair of the Commission on Effective Interventions in the Social Domain (Movisie)
2015 – 2022
Member Advisory Board of the Dutch Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)
2020 – 2022
Member Commission Social Impact of COVID-19 of the Association Netherlands Municipalities
2020- 2021
Member Thinktank COVID-19 of the Social and Economic Council of the Netherlands (SER)
2010 – 2018
Member General Board Orange Fund (Oranjefonds)
2002 – 2013
Correspondent Continuous Reporting System on Migration (SOPEMI) of the OECD
2013 – 2014
Member Advisory Commission on Safety of Asylum Seekers, Dutch Safety Board
2013 – 2014
Member Advisory Commission on Labour Migration, Social Economic Council (SER)
2001 – 2009
Elected Member Board of the Dutch Social Sciences Council (SWR)
2001 – 2009
Elected Member Dutch Social Sciences Council (SWR)
2005 – 2009
Member Advisory Commission ‘Social Platform’. Municipality of Rotterdam
2000 – 2005
Member General Board of the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (ASSR), University of Amsterdam
2001 – 2008
Elected Member Dutch Advisory Commission on Migration Affairs (ACVZ)
2003 – 2006
Chair Foresight Committee on the Future of Dutch Sociology, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
2001 – 2005
Member Scientific Advisory Committee of IVO Addiction Research Institute
2001 – 2004
Member Scientific Advisory Committee NSCR, University of Leiden
1996 – 2000
Chair of the Independent Editorial Committee of the Annual Reports on Poverty and Social Exclusion, funded by Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment
1993
Member of the Commission on Social Assistance and Welfare Fraud (‘Commission van der Zwan’)
1992 – 1996
Chair of the Scientific Research Committee on the Dutch Social Assistance System; and Member of the Scientific Research Committee on the Dutch Social Security System, Ministry of Social Affairs and EmploymentLijst item