Joke van der Leeuw-Roord

She was chair of the Committee which designed and implemented innovative national examinations for history and citizenship education.

[4] She has since 1992 initiated and coordinated a multitude of national, trans-national projects amongst others in Albania, Belarus, Bulgaria, Bosnia-in-Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine.

[6] Joke van der Leeuw-Roord operates as consultant for the Council of Europe, UNESCO, OSCE, International Alert [7] and the European Union.

She is Member of the Advisory Board of the Georg Eckert Institute in Braunschweig (Germany),[8] former Secretary General of the Steering Committee of the Lifelong Learning Platform (LLLP) [9] Affiliated Research Associate of the Institute for Historical Culture at the Rotterdam Erasmus University [10] and Mentor of WISE Learners [11] Joke van der Leeuw is the author of publications by the Koerberstiftung,[12] UNESCO and many international journals on history and history education.

She has been decorated in 2009 as Officer in the Order of Oranje-Nassau[13] and honored with the Huib de Ruyter Award for History Education.