BOARD

The current board of the OVN Foundation consists of the following members:
  • ms. dr. Andréa A. Kroon (chairwoman), independent art historian at Kroon & Wagtberg Hansen, specialised in the material culture of freemasonry;
  • ms. Iris de Zoete BA (secretary), scholar or religious studies, specializing in women and freemasonry around 1900; former assitant at the Vrijmetselarij Museum,
  • ms. dr. Marty Th. Bax (treasurer), independent art historian at Baxart Concepts & Services, specializing the the relationship between art and western esotericism around 1900;
  • prof.dr. Jan A.M. Snoek (board member), senior scholar of religious studies at the University of Heidelberg, specializing in the history and ritual practice of freemasonry, ;
  • Blair Kneppers BaA (board member), alumnus of the Reinwardt Academy and Head of the Vrijmetselarij Museum.
The board is advised by an international comittee of recommendation: 
  • prof. dr. Wouter Hanegraaff, Chair for the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
  • prof. emerit. Anton van de Sande, former professor at the Chair for Freemasonry as an Intellectual Current and Socio-cultural European Phenomenon, University of Leiden, The Netherlands;
  • prof. Luc Nefontaine, Institut d’Etudes des Religions et de la Laïcité, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium);
  • prof. dr. Andrew Prescott, former director of the Centre for Research into Freemasonry, University of Sheffield (UK) / professor at the Digital Humanities, University of Glasgow (UK);
  • prof. dr. Jean-Pierre Brach, Chaire d'Histoire des courants ésotériques dans l'Europe moderne et contemporaine / directeur d’études de l'École Pratique des Hautes Études, Section des Sciences Religieuses, Sorbonne, Parijs (France);
  • ms. prof. dr. Cécile Révauger, professor at the Dept. English Studies, Université Bordeaux Montaigne (France);
  • prof. emerit. dr. Helmut Reinalter, former chairman of the Wissenschaftliche Kommission zur Erforschung der Freimaurerei / Institut für Geschichte, Universität Innsbruck (Austria);
  • prof.dr. J.A.F. Benimeli, Centro de Estudios Históricos de la Masoneria Española, Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain);
  • ms. prof. emerit. Margaret C. Jacob, Distinguished Professor of Research, Department of History, University of California in Los Angeles (USA);
  • prof. dr. Robert-Jan van Pelt, School of Architecture, University of Waterloo, Ontario (Canada).
The OVN aims to cooperate with other academic organizations and university chairs in the Netherlands and abroad on projects that stimulate the development of the field of study. The support of the committee of recommendation facilitates international contacts, allowing the OVN to represent Dutch scholars in the field of study of freemasonry at an international level and to participate in newly formed academic networks. The board welcomes any suggestions for joint conferences or other projects in the field of study.