Prof. Bert van den Brink has been Dean of University College Roosevelt in Middelburg, the Netherlands, since 2016. He is a professor of political and social philosophy at Utrecht University, of which UCR’s Liberal Arts Curriculum is part. His main expertise and interest in Liberal Arts and Sciences and Higher Education is in linking up LAS education with societal challenges, students’ personal development, engaged world citizenship, and interdisciplinary cooperation between the natural, the social, and the human sciences. Before he came to UCR he was head of the Graduate School of the Humanities at Utrecht University. Prof Van den Brink has much experience in structures of quality assurance and accreditation of academic programs at all levels of higher education. In philosophy, his work is on the normative foundations of liberalism, social justice, democracy and pluralism, and the normative grammar of social relations. Next to many articles in journals he published several books and collections, which include Recognition and Power (ed. with David Owen, OUP 2007 / 2010) and The Tragedy of Liberalism (SUNY, 2000).