Ireen Hoogenboom is the coordinator of the collaboration with Indonesian researchers and is part of the editorial team of the project Regional Studies.
Hoogenboom studied Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia and Oceania in Leiden. Since 2021, she has been working at the KITLV as project manager of several research projects about the Indonesian War of Independence. Before that, she worked as a project manager for Asian Studies in Amsterdam (ASiA, IIAS) and as programme manager of the master’s programme Contemporary Asian Studies at the University of Amsterdam, and as an editor for the KITLV Press and Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania.