Monika Sie Dhian Ho is former General Director of the Clingendael Institute (2016-2026). She is a Clingendael Senior Fellow and member of the Advisory Council on Migration. She is also a lecturer at the Netherlands School of Public Administration in The Hague. She was vice-chair of the State Committee on Demographic trends 2050 and member of the Advisory Council on International Affairs.
Prior to joining Clingendael, she was Director of the Wiardi Beckman Foundation, the social-democratic think tank in the Netherlands. At the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy, she worked as a researcher and project manager, focusing on the European Union, development cooperation, and democratic transition and consolidation.
Monika studied and lectured political science at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and was lecturer in International Relations and International Political Economy at Leiden University.