Georg Frerks

Georg Frerks was the chair of conflict prevention and conflict management at Utrecht University and the chair of international security studies at the Netherlands Defence Academy until his retirement in 2021. Until 2014, Frerks was also chair of disaster studies at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. His research focuses on disasters and conflict, including international and national policies and interventions. Frerks published 25 academic books, 120 journal articles and book chapters, and 90 policy reports and monographs. Frerks directed numerous policy-related studies and evaluations, and served on boards of national and international academic institutions and nongovernmental organizations.