Mirjam van Reisen is Professor International Relations, Innovation and Care at Tilburg University and Professor of FAIR Data Science at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) at Leiden University. Van Reisen is Research Leader of the Globalization, Accessibility, Innovation and Care (GAIC) network and Project Director for the Digital Innovation and Skills Hub (DISH), part of the Africa University Network on FAIR Open Science (AUN). Her teaching experience includes, among others, the University of Pavia, Tilburg University, Amsterdam University College, Leiden University and the College of Europe.
Van Reisen is the Director of the organisation Research Advisors & Experts Europe (RAEE) in Brussels. Van Reisen is the Principle Investigator of VODAN Africa. She is a Member of the Supervisory Board of PharmAccess.
Van Reisen was a member of the Dutch Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV) and Chair of the Development Assistance Committee (COS) from 2013 to 2020. She was a member of the Board of Philips Foundation and the SNV Netherlands Development Organisation until 2020.
Mirjam van Reisen has published extensively on Europe and international cooperation, human rights and human trafficking. She leads research into international human trafficking, international cooperation, the role of technology and big data and the position of women in peace building.
Van Reisen received the Golden Image Award in 2012 by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
Professor of FAIR Data Science at Leiden University Medical Centre
Coercive Population Control
Ethnic Discrimination Or Persecution
Forced Conscription
Government/State Actor Persecution
Military/Police Service
Political Persecution
Religious Discrimination Or Persecution
Risk of Return
Prison Conditions
Statelessness & Lack of Nationality Documentation
I previously served as a member of the Dutch Government Council on International Relations (Adviesraad Internationale Vraagstukken - AIV), which advises the Dutch government. I am considered an international expert on Eritrea and I am the author of more than six books as well as numerous articles on Eritrea in the context of migration and human trafficking. I have extensive knowledge and understanding of the situation in Eritrea and its neighbouring countries. I have authored many expert reports on asylum cases, some of which were commissioned by the Dutch government and parliament, the expert centre of the Dutch police (LDM), judges and prosecutors, and UK attorneys.
Van Reisen, M., & Mawere, M. (2024). Tigray. The Hysteresis of War, Book 1. Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa RPCIG.
Van Reisen, M. & Mawere, M. (2024). Tigray. The Panarchy of War, Book 2. Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa RPCIG.
Van Reisen, M., Medhyanyie, A. A. & Mawere, M. (2024). Tigray. War in a Digital Black Hole, Book 3. Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa RPCIG.
Van Reisen, M., Medhyanyie, A. A. & Mawere, M. (2024). Tigray. War in a Digital Black Hole, Book 3. Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa RPCIG.
Van Reisen, M., Mawere M., Smits, K., & Wirtz, M. (eds) (2023). Enslaved. Trapped and Trafficked in Digital Black Holes: Human Trafficking Trajectories to Libya. Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa RPCIG.
Van Reisen, M. Mawere, M., Stokmans, M., Gebre-Egziabher, K. (eds.). (2019). Roaming Africa: Mobility, Resilience and Social Protection. Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG (Double peer-reviewed)
Van Reisen, M. Mawere, M., Stokmans, M., Gebre-Egziabher, K. (eds.). (2019) Mobile Africa: Human Trafficking and the Digital Divide. Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG (Double peer-reviewed)
Van Reisen, M., Smits, K. (2018). Eritrea en Eritrese Vluchtelingen. Centraal Orgaan opvang Asielzoekers (COA): the Netherlands
Buck, KD. & Van Reisen, M. (eds.) (2017). Eritrea: from liberation to oppression. Hamburg: EMW.
Van Reisen, M. & Mawere, M. (eds.) (2017). Human Trafficking and Trauma in the Digital Era: The Ongoing Tragedy of the Trade in Refugees from Eritrea. Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG
Buck, KD. & Van Reisen, M. (eds.) (2015). Eritrea: Von der Befreiung zur Unterdrückung. Hamburg: EMW.
Van Reisen, M., Estefanos, M. & Rijken, C. (2014). The Human Trafficking Cycle: Sinai and Beyond. Nijmegen: Wolf Legal Publishers.
Van Reisen, M., Estefanos, M. & Rijken, C. (2012). Human Trafficking in the Sinai: Refugees between Life and death. Nijmegen: Wolf Publishers
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