Karin Boven

Karin Maria Boven (born November 27, 1963 in Amsterdam ) is a Dutch cultural anthropologist (Surinamist) and diplomat . She has been the Dutch ambassador to Sudan since 2017 .

Life

Karin Boven completed her university entrance qualification in 1982 at Melanchthon Schiebroek , a Christian Vwo in Rotterdam . In 1988 she did a master's degree in cultural anthropology at the University of Utrecht .

From 1990 to 2001 she did field research with the Wayana in Suriname , French Guiana and Brazil, and from 1995 to 2001 she worked from Paramaribo as a consultant in development cooperation and nature management for, among others, the development aid organization Cordaid and Oxfam Novib , the Mama Cash Foundation , UNICEF , the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the European Union , the WWF and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

From 1995 to 2012 she was co-editor of OSO , a magazine for Surinamese.

In 2006 she received her doctorate from the University of Utrecht on the subject of “Survival in a border area. Change processes among the Wayana in Suriname and French Guiana ”. As part of her doctoral preparation, she worked from 2001 to 2002 as a research assistant at the Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (KITLV) in Leiden . From 2001 to 2003 she was program officer for the Nuffic organization's higher education program in The Hague .

She is married and has a son and a daughter.

Diplomatic career

She joined the foreign service in 2003. In the Ministry of Buitenlandse Zaken she had short assignments abroad in Bratislava and London and from 2013 to 2014 was Head of Development Cooperation in Kabul , there from 2014 to 2015 she was also Deputy Head of the Embassy in Afghanistan . Back in the Netherlands, she was coordinator in the department responsible for the Syria crisis from 2015 to 2017.

As an ambassador, she was sent to Khartoum in 2017 to succeed Susan Blankhart . As the Dutch ambassador to Sudan, she is also accredited for the Central African Republic , Eritrea and Chad .

Fonts

• Vrouwelijke ondernemers in Suriname: een profielschets . Culconsult, Paramaribo 1998.
• Religious specialists . Stichting Instituut ter Bevordering van de Surinamistiek, Utrecht 1999
• Beyond Samuwaka: A History of the Trio Peoples . Amazon Conversation Team, Arlington 2001, ISBN 978-9991465005 .
• as editor with Jun Morohashi: Best practices using indigenous knowledge . Nuffic, The Hague 2002, ISBN 90-5464-032-4 .

Web links

• CV Karin Bovens on nederlandwereldwijd.nl (English)
• Publication list Karin Bovens (English)