Marlous Willemsen

Marlous Willemsen is a policy officer for the Prince Claus Fund. She studied Arabic language and culture at Utrecht University (1988-1994), and Islamic art at Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg, Germany (1991-1992). She is a member of the board of the Centre of Islamic Art and Culture, Rotterdam, which she managed (1994-1997) before joining the Prince Claus Fund in 1997. In this centre she ran partnerships with cultural organisations in the Middle East and North Africa and set up intellectual projects in the Netherlands.