As of 19 November 2012, Henk Wals will be the new director of the International Institute of Social History. Henk Wals will succeed Erik-Jan Zürcher, who stepped down earlier.
Henk Wals has been deputy director of the IISH from 1993 until 2004. He studied Social and Economic History at the University of Amsterdam and entered employment at the IISH in 1982. In 2000, he gained his PhD with a study on survival strategies of construction workers in Amsterdam during the first quarter of the 20th century.
In 2004 he was appointed director of Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, a fellow Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
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20 November 2012