Executive functions

2011 - 2015

Member advisory board UvT Sociëteit

2011 - 2012

Chairman NVAO visitation committee IUR

Since 2010

Member of the board of the Netherlands Interuniversity School for Islamic Studies (NISIS)

2010 - 2016

Member of the School Board of NOSTER

2008 - 2010

Head of the Department Religious Studies of the Faculty of Humanities, Tilburg University

2003 - 2010

Member academic advisory board Centrum IMNO

2003 - 2010

Member of the board of the Centre for Intercultural Ethics of the department Religious Studies and Theology of the Faculty of Humanities, Tilburg University

1999 - 2010

Member of the International Committee Centre for Islam in Europe Gent, Belgium

1994 - 2010

Member academic advisory board of the special chair Intercultural Communication, Tilburg University

2003 - 2007

Chairman of the board of the Centre for Intercultural Ethics, Tilburg University

1997 - 2006

Chairman of the Committee for Wetenschapsbeoefening (CWB), Tilburg University

1998 - 2006

 Prodecaan Research, Tilburg University

2000 - 2006

Member of the 'Instellingsraad' of NOSTER

1997 - 2005

Member of the steering committee KNAW-programme ‘Dissemination of Muslim Authority in Indonesia’

1999 - 2004

Member of the South-Africa committee, Tilburg University

2003

Advisor and expert of the visitation committee teacher education 'Godsdienst/levensbeschouwing en Godsdienst en Pastoraal Werk', resulting in the report 'Samen Scholen. Eindrapport van de visitatiecommissie tweedegraads lerarenopleiding. Deel A: Algemene deel. Deel B: Specifieke delen'. Den Haag 2004

1996 - 2002

Chairman Nederlands Genootschap voor Godsdienstwetenschap

1996 - 2002

Member of the International Committee of the International Association for the History of Religions