Geertje Lycklama à Nijeholt

Geertje Lycklama à Nijeholt (2 April 1938 – 18 November 2014) was a Dutch politician and women and development studies scholar.

As a scientist she spend 16 years at the International Institute of Social Studies, of which five as rector.

In October 1970 she took up a position as research assistant at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, United States.

[1] Lycklama à Nijeholt returned to the Netherlands and between 1977 and 1983 she coordinator of international women's affairs at the Dutch Foreign Ministry.

[1] Lycklama à Nijeholt received the Aletta Jacobsprijs [nl] on 8 April 1992.