Kees Biekart

Kees Biekart

Associate Professor Political Sociology, Institute of Social Studies (ISS)

Kees Biekart has co-ordinated TNI projects on and with the Central American peasant movement, and the politics of European NGO aid to civil society organisations in the South.

Biekart's latest works include The Politics of Civil Society Building: European Private Aid Agencies and Democratic Transitions in Central America (TNI/International Books 1999) and Compassion and Calculation: The Business of Private Foreign Aid, co-edited with David Sogge and John Saxby (TNI/Pluto 1996).

He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Amsterdam, and as a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS),  focuses on teaching and research related to civil society, NGOs and social movements.

Kees Biekart is also Treasurer of the Board of Directors at the Transnational Institute

Work area:

Areas of expertise:

Civil Society & NGOs; New Forms of Transnational Alliances; Latin American Politics; Northern NGO Aid to the South

Contact

Email: biekart [at] iss.nl

Profile on LinkedIn

Profile on ISS website 

English; Dutch; Spanish

Recent content by Kees Biekart

Civic Driven Change - A concise guide to the basics

April 2009
This short booklet introduces new ideas about how civil society is taking charge in guiding development by taking key roles in society to respond to the most pressing issues the world faces such as poverty, injustice, conflict and environmental degradation.

Civic Driven Change

October 2008
The Civic Driven change Initiative is a recent thinking and debating process to explore and communicate a perspective of change in societies that stems from citizens rather than states or markets. The initiative is meant to kick-start a public debate about and beyond aided-development.