External Research Fellow

Jaap Dronkers was born in Amsterdam in 1945 and studied sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He has been Associate Professor of the Sociology of Education and Empirical Sociology at the Catholic University of Brabant in Tilburg (1986–1990), Chair in Educational Sciences (1990–1999), and Chair in Empirical Sociology (1999–2001) both at the University of Amsterdam. Prof. Dronkers was visiting scholar at the Max-Planck Institute for Human Development (1998–1999). From October 2001 until December 2009 he was Professor of Social Stratification and Inequality at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. From December 2009 he holds the chair international comparative research on educational performance and social inequality at the Maastricht University. During the autumn of 2010 he was visiting professor at the Doshisha University in Kyoto (Japan). Since September 2011 he is academic partner of the Centraal Planbureau (Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis).

Jaap Dronkers joined CReAM as an external fellow in April 2012.