Visiting Professor of Servant Leadership
School of Business, Leadership and Enterprise
Dr Sylvia van de Bunt-Kokhuis is managing director of the Servant-leadership Centre for Research and Education (SLCRE) at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), Faculty of Economics and Business Administration.
At VU she co-coordinates amongst others VU Master courses in Careers&Organisations and Cross Cultural Management (2001-present). She has an international career in business and academia, and has been serving as a management consultant for various firms such as Digital Equipment, Vendex International, KLM and Ahold, the European Commission, UNESCO, and NGO’s.
From 2004 onwards she is Visiting Professor at Middlesex University London, from 2008-2011 Visiting Professor at Liverpool Hope University and recently (2011) she was appointed Visiting Professor of Servant-Leadership at the School of Business, Leadership and Enterprise of University Campus Suffolk UK.
At The Hague University she was Lector HRM during 2003-2008. The book 'Academic Pilgrims' (Tilburg University Press, 1996) was her PhD on the passion of professionals to be internationally mobile. She published extensively on (higher) education, cross cultural issues, talent diversity and internet in international journals, edited the book ‘World Wide Work’ (VU University Press, 2006) and co-edited the books ‘Handboek Internationaal Talent’ (Weka, 2007) and ‘Competing for Talent’ (Van Gorcum, 2009).
During 2003-2006 she was coordinator of a large scale European higher education project FILTER, investigating the credibility/integrity and cultural filtering of online content. She was member of the Supervisory Board of Compu’Train (2000-2005), is member of the Supervisory Board of Kennisnet (www.kennisnet.nl, 2006-present), and Nova Academy (www.novacollege.nl, 2008-present).
She is President of NGVO, the Dutch Speaking Society for Comparative Education, the Flemish/Dutch Member Society of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies, see www.wcces.net (1995-present).
In Quote 600 she was elected one of the most influential people in the Netherlands (Quote, July 2003, nr. 210).