Position：Director General

Short CV ：Jan van den Akker is Director General of SLO (Netherlands Institute for Curriculum Development).

Besides he is (part-time) professor at the University of Twente, Department of Curriculum Design & Educational Innovation.

He has a broad international orientation, including supervision and consultancy for many R&D projects in various continents, especially sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia. He is past president and currently member of the board of CIDREE (Consortium of Institutions for Research and Development in Education in Europe).

Main areas of expertise: curriculum policy making; curriculum development in interaction with teacher learning and school development; methodology of design research in education.