Prof. dr. Henk van Houtum is Research Professor Geopolitics of Borders, University of Bergamo & Associate Professor Geopolitics and Political Geography of the Radboud University Nijmegen, Head of the Nijmegen Centre for Border Research (NCBR).

Henk van Houtum graduated in Economics at the University of Tilburg, The Netherlands (cum laude). He wrote a dissertation on the relationship between political borders and economics at the same university. In 1998, at the University of Nijmegen, he co-founded the Nijmegen Centre for Border Research.

He is research coordinator of the research programme (SCAPES) of the Nijmegen School of Management of the Radboud University Nijmegen. In addition, he is co-director of the master specialisation on Europe: Borders, Identities and Governance and the master specialisation on Conflicts, Territories and Identities. And he is co-editor of the Journal of Borderlands Studies, Association of Borderlands Scholars (ABS). From March 1, 2012 until August 1, 2012, he is member of the Centre for Ethics, Radboud University Nijmegen (0.2fte).

He published extensively on the ontology and (in)justice of borders, external border regime of the EU, geopolitics of the European integration, on migration and cross-border mobility, national identity, hypercapitalism, (divided) cities and the geopolitics of cartography (see publications). He is a columnist and commentator for various media.

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