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Equipo (4)
Nuestro equipo de trabajo actual está compuesto por:
- Co-Director - Alex Merlo
- Co-Director - Alex de Jong
- Commercial manager - Aat van Wijk
- Librarian - Arend van de Poel
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Former directors (13)
Few people have contributed to forming and developing the Institute like our former directors. We would like to thank each of them for the great amount of work they have done to make the institute what it is today.
View items...IIRE Islamabad (2)
The International Institute for Research and Education (IIRE) Islamabad is an independent chapter of IIRE Amsterdam. IIRE Islamabad is established in 2010 in collaboration with Amsterdam office. Now the institute is functioning independently with the aim to develop a cadre of political, human rights and peace activists to strengthen the democratic and progressive environment for the development of society.
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Joost Kircz, a long time Marxist activist, is board member since 1982 and deals with the general legal and financial matters of the IIRE/IIRF. He represents the IIRE in the society of owners of the Timorplein complex.
His main interest is the relationship between science and Marxism. He was Chairman of the Amsterdam Anders/ De Groenen group (a radical activist party) in the Amsterdam Centre borough council from 2002-2010. He operates an independent research company on knowledge transfer with electronic means ( www.kra.nl ) and was until recently part-time Lector (reader) at the University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam. His political papers can be found at:
http://www.kra.nl/Website/Publ-spp.htm .
Murray Smith was co-director of the IIRE 2005-2007.
He is originally from Scotland, where he studied History, Political Science and Soviet Studies at the University of Glasgow. He served as international secretary for the Scottish Socialist Party and was founding editor of the socialist journal Frontline. He also lived for many years in France and speaks fluent French.
Eva Ferraren holds a degree from the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, and is a specialist on the organic development of the women's movement within broader social movements. Eva have been active in Philippine social movements and is currently working with the Mindanao diaspora in Europe. She has extensive experience as a feminist and peace activist in the southern Philippine region of Mindanao.
Eva Ferraren was co-director from 2004 to 2007.
Economist, specialist on Balkans and Eastern Europe. She has been active in several internationalist associations since the 1960s. Founding member of Espaces Marx. Member of the scientific council of the French association ATTAC.
Teacher of political science at University of Quebec, Montreal.
