University secretary Calluna Euving is leaving the UvA
University Secretary Calluna Euving is leaving the UvA after seven years for a staff position at the Council for the Judiciary in The Hague. Her appointment takes effect at the end of October.
Calluna Euving (1969) will be one of two new board members of the five-member Council for the Judiciary, an independent buffer between the judiciary and the government that has existed since 2002. The Council is part of the judiciary but does not administer justice itself. It forms the board of most of the justice organizations in the Netherlands, including the 11 district courts and the four courts of appeal. Euving's responsibilities within the Council will include ICT and human resources. The government has agreed to her appointment, the Council announced.
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Euving is a political science graduate and earned her MBA from Georgetown University in Washington, DC. She was a past board member at the Office of the Quartet Representative in Jerusalem. Before that, she worked as Chief of Staff at the Mathematical Association of America and at Georgetown University. Previously, she worked at the Delft University of Technology. Before that, she served as president of the Interstedelijk Studentenoverleg (ISO). She has been university secretary since February 2016 and is married to D66 member Udo Kock, who was alderman of the City of Amsterdam from 2018-2019.
Among other things, the university secretary is the head of the university administrative staff and responsible for supporting the Executive Board. The secretary is also the link between the Executive Board and the faculties. It is a highly strategic, politically sensitive position in which many (administrative) interests converge. In recent months, Euving has had her hands full with the issues surrounding Laurens Buijs. The Council announces that Euving will assume her office on October 30. It is not yet known who will succeed her at the UvA.
