Dr Marjoleine Hennis is Senior Associate Fellow at the Clingendael Instititute. She is Counsellor at the Permanent Representation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the OECD, working on Responsible Business Conduct, Digitalisation, and Social Affairs. She is also the Chair of the OECD-FAO Advisory Group on Responsible Agricultural Supply Chains.
Prior to this she has worked at the OECD as the Advisor to the Chair of the OECD Working Party on Responsible Business Conduct (WP RBC), the intergovernmental committee overseeing the implementation of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.
She started her professional life in academia, after a Masters’ degree at the University of Amsterdam, and a PhD at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy). She has been a Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, and has worked for ten years as an Assistant Professor of International Political Economy and European Integration at the University of Groningen, the University of Amsterdam, and Trinity College.
Throughout her career, the work of Marjoleine Hennis has built on inclusiveness and sustainable development, either by analysing its mechanisms, or by actively contributing to improving these mechanisms. She has published about globalisation, Europeanization, and its impact on the role of farmers in agricultural policy making; Responsible Business Conduct; and Social Dialogue in the European Union.
