Jaap Dronkers

"Jaap Dronkers was born in Amsterdam in 1945 and studied sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam He has been head of Research of Education and Sociology at SISWO (1976–1986), Associate Professor of the Sociology of Education and Empirical Sociology at the Catholic University of Brabant in Tilburg (1986–1990), Chair in Educational Sciences (1990–1999), and Chair in Empirical Sociology (1999–2001) both at the University of Amsterdam. Prof. Dronkers was Dean of the Faculty of Educational Sciences and Pedagogy of the University of Amsterdam (1994–1998) and visiting scholar at the Max-Planck Institute for Human Development (1998–1999). As of September 2001 until November 2009 he is Professor of Social Stratification and Inequality at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, and since July 2007 also Professor Sociology in the Department of Pedagogy & Educational Sciences and the SCO-Kohnstamm Institute of the University of Amsterdam. From December 2009 he will become professor with a chair in International Comparison of Educational Performance at the Maastricht University and affiliated with Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA) .
Since 2002 he has been one of the organisers of the European Network for the Sociological and Demographic Study of Divorce. During 2006/2007 he has been Director of the European Forum The Quality of Education and its Relationships with Inequality in European and Other Modern Societies."