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On 1 July, Anika Altaf will become the new coordinator of the Knowledge Platform INCLUDE. The Platform's current coordinator, Marleen Dekker, has held this position since its establishment in 2014. Marleen Dekker has started a new function as director of the African Studies Centre Leiden on 1 April. Anika Altaf, who joined the INCLUDE Secretariat in 2020, has over a decade of experience in the field of international development with a strong focus on Sub Saharan Africa and South Asia. Her area of expertise is inclusive development and human wellbeing, specifically of the most marginalised people.

André Leliveld has won a grant of 100,000 euros within the Comenius Senior Fellow programme for the project ‘Learning globally, acting locally: co-creation of an international multidisciplinary online learning environment around Frugal Innovation'. André is academic coordinator of the LDE minor 'Frugal Innovation for Sustainable Global Development'.

On the occasion of the exhibition 'Slavery' at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, opened by King Willem-Alexander on 18 May, the ASCL Library has compiled a web dossier on the Indian Ocean slave trade. The dossier consists of selected titles from the ASCL Library Catalogue, extended with sources available through the broader Leiden University Library collection. The dossier is introduced by Rijksmuseum curator Maria Holtrop. Read the web dossier.