Gert Grift
After completing a Master degree in economics at the University of Amsterdam (1984), Gert worked for a research institute and a professional association before joining the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam (AMC) in 1988. At the AMC, Gert held a range of managerial positions in both operations and staff, including divisional director, concern controller and director of strategy. Between 2014 and 2017, he was as project director responsible for the anticipated merger of the science faculties of the two Amsterdam universities.
In 2017, he joined the T.M.C. Asser Instituut as managing director and board member. As Asser’s managing director, he oversees the GCTF AU and is a member of the supervisory board of the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague.
Counter-Terrorism After 9/11 is a podcast series exploring how counter-terrorism has changed in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001. In our second episode, we speak to Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism. This interview explores critical […]
On 20 February 2020, a remarkable article by Sirajuddin Haqqani appeared in The New York Times. Coming just days before the signing by the United States and the Taliban movement of a bilateral ‘Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan’, the essay was full of beautiful thoughts: ‘Everyone has lost somebody they loved. Everyone is tired […]
Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks in the US, the impact of jihadist organisations abroad continues to loom in Southeast Asia. The Islamic State energised a resurgence of militant activity in Indonesia and the Philippines from the mid-2010s, and the Taliban’s takeover in Afghanistan appears to have sent a psychological boost during a period of […]