Original publishing date: Jun 30, 2021

We are very happy to officially announce the appointment of our new director: Corinne Lamain. She will be taking over and expanding upon the tasks done by our previous director Jessica Duncan.

A short bio from Corinne will tell you all a lot more about who she is and what she stands for:

Corinne Lamain cares about enhancing the contribution of scientific research to social and environmental justice. She does so through designing research policies, as well as through conducting research herself. For over a decade Corinne worked as senior policy adviser at WOTRO Science for Global Development, a department of the Dutch Science Council (NWO). She coordinated research programmes that were aimed at achieving scientific excellence as well as societal impact. Focus areas of these programmes ranged from conflicts over natural resource and climate change, security and rule of law as well as food and nutrition security, always focused on the Global South. She co-developed the Impact Plan approach within NWO, which applies to all NWO-funded ‘science for society’. Also, Corinne is a PhD researcher in the field of Political Ecology, focusing on climate security discourses as part of climate action in the Eastern Himalayas. Whenever opportunity arises she is outside, growing food and watching birds. In addition to reading, lots of reading, preferably classic novels.

We would like to thank Jessica Duncan for all that she has done as the CUCo’s director. The first steps are often the hardest, but with Jessica’s positive energy and unrelentness forward thinking, the CUCo has been able to make waves in the first years. Luckily Jessica will remain part of the CUCo as a board member on behalf of the WUR.

We cannot understate how happy we are with Corinne as our new director. She will be working hard along with the CUCo Board to further improve how we do science within the alliance.

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