Dorothea Johanna Maria (Thea) Hilhorst is a professor of humanitarian studies at the International Institute for Social Studies of Erasmus University in The Hague, The Netherlands.
Hilhorst received her Ph.D. from Wageningen University in 2000 with the thesis title Records and Reputations: Everyday Politics of a Philippine Development NGO.
She was a professor for humanitarian aid at Wageningen University.
[1] As of 2022, Hilhorst was a professor at Leiden University and at Rotterdam.
[2] Hilhorst is the president of the International Humanitarian Studies Association.