Ernst Hirsch Ballin is Distinguished University Professor at Tilburg University and, as Professor of Human Rights Law at the University of Amsterdam, President of the Asser Institute for International and European Law in The Hague. He was a member of the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR, 2014–2019), and was subsequently appointed as consultative member of the council. He is also a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and of the Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV). Ernst Hirsch Ballin was the Netherlands Minister of Justice (1989–1994, 2006–2010) and represented as such the Netherlands in the Council of the European Union for Justice and Home Affairs. He was also a member of Parliament (1994–1995 House of representatives, 1995–2000 Senate), followed by his appointment to the Council of State (2000–2006). In 1999/2000 he was a member of the Convention charged with drawing up the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.Huub Dijstelbloem is Professor of Philosophy of Science and Politics at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Senior Researcher and Project Leader at the Scientific Council for Government Policy in The Hague (WRR). As a visiting scholar he was affiliated to the University of California San Diego (2014) and to the University of Mapoto’s Center for Policy Analysis (2010). He is involved in public debates about science, technology and democracy and is one of the initiators of Science in Transition His research is concerned with border control technologies, security policies and migration issues and has been published in various books, edited volumes and journals including Nature, Geopolitics, International Political Sociology, Security Studies, the Journal of Borderland Studies and the European Journal of Social Theory.Peter de Goede is senior researcher at the Scientific Council for Government Policy (Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid) in the Netherlands. He studied (comparative) political science at Radboud University in Nijmegen and worked at the same university as assistant professor in the Department of Public Administration. He obtained his doctorate at Leiden University with a thesis providing a comparative history of 80 years of public broadcasting policy in the Netherlands. Peter has also worked as a senior advisor at the Council for Public Administration (Raad voor het openbaar bestuur).
