Thea Hilhorst

Principal Investigator

Professor Dorothea (Thea) Hilhorst is the Principal Investigator of the Climares project together with Christopher Jack. She co-leads workpackages 1 and 9.

Thea is professor of Humanitarian Studies at the International Institute for Social Studies of Erasmus University in The Hague. In 2022, Prof Hilhorst was awarded the Spinoza Prize, one of the most notable Dutch awards in science. From this award, she has established the Hague Humanitarian Studies Centre (HSC) based at the ISS. Prof Hilhorst’s work has a focus on aid-society relations: studying how aid is embedded in the context, impacts on governments and society, and is shaped by the manifold actions of actors in and around programmes for protection, service delivery and capacity development. She has a special interest in the intersections of humanitarianism with development, peacebuilding and gender-relations.