Peter Geschiere, Chairman, Professor of African Anthropology University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Manthia Diawara, Professor of Comparative Literature, editor-in-chief of Black Renaissance, author, filmmaker, Bamako, Mali/Accra, Ghana/ New York, United States
Elias Khoury, Author, chief editor and director of Mullak, weekly cultural supplement of newspaper An-Nahar, codirector of the Ayloul Festival, Beirut, Lebanon
Rahul Mehrotra, Architect, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,Cambridge, United States
Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, Photographer, Editor, Mexico City, Mexico
Virginia Pérez-Ratton, Artist, Curator, Director of TEOR/éTica, San José, Costa Rica
Fariba de Bruin-Derakhshani is secretary to the Awards Committee
Adriaan van der Staay, Chairman, former Professor of Cultural Politics and Cultural Critique, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
Bas de Gaay Fortman, Professor of Political Economy of Human Rights, Utrecht University, Utrecht
Rustom Bharucha, Independent Writer, Theater Director and Cultural Critic, Calcutta, India
Yilmaz Esmer, Professor, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
Helmut Anheier, Director, Center for Civil Society, Los Angeles, California
Nestor Garcia Canclini, Sociologist and Urban Expert, Mexico City, Mexico
Aminata Traoré, social and cultural activist and coordinator Forum for another Mali, Bamako, Mali
Emile Fallaux, Chairman, Member of the Board of the Prince Claus Fund
Ian Buruma, essayist and historian, London, England
Ellen Ombre, writer, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Khaled Al Hroub, author, Palestina / England
Okwui Enwezor, curator, Lagos, Nigeria and New York, United States
Peter Stepan, editor at Prestel Publishers, München, Germany is managing editor of the Prince Claus Fund Library
Els van der Plas, Chair, Director of the Prince Claus Fund
Solange Farkas, director of VideoBrasil, São Paulo, Brazil
Robert Loder, chairman of the Board of the Triangle Arts Trust, London, England
Nirwan Dewanto, director Utan Kayu, Jakarta, Indonesia
Germaine Acogny and Helmut Vogt, Jant-Bi, Toubab Dialow, Senegal
Martin Mhando, Zanzibar International Film Festival, Zanzibar
Shahidul Alam, founder and director of DRIK Picture Library, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Peter Karanja, director Mathare Youth Sports Association Nairobi, Kenya
Cecilia Kenning, chairperson Asociación Pro Arte y Cultura, St. Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
Felix Madrazo, Supersudaca, Latin-America
Odile Gakire Katese, co -director Centre Universitaire des Arts, Butare Rwanda
Ly Daravuth, director Reyum Institute, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Zeina Arida, director of Arab Image Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
Davide Quadrio, co-founder and director of BizArt Art Centre, Shanghai, China
The International Advisory Board consists of four committees whose members meet at least once a year. These four advisory committees are
the Awards Committee,
the Committee for Culture and Development,
the Publication Committee and
the Network Committee.
These committees can be incidentally extended with external advisors. The International Advisory Board and the General Advisors advises the Board of the Fund on major policy issues.
The 2006 Awards Committee, from left to right: Selma Al-Radi, Manthia Diawara, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, Amitav Ghosh, Virginia Pérez-Ratton, Mick Pearce, Niek Biegman.
The Network Committee in December 2007 from left to right: Odile Kakire Gatese, Daravuth Ly, Hasif Amini, Felix Madrazo, Peter Kanraja, Manuel de Rivero, Joumana el Zein, Cecilia Kenning, Helmut Vogt, Davide Qudrio, Shahidul Alam, Hindah Ajmy, Alessio Antoniolli and Zeina Arida.
