Sanneke Kuipers, associate professor in Crisis Governance, combines crisis management scholarship with practical experience as a consultant. She publishes on crisis management, institutionalization, organizational survival, and crisis accountability in international scholarly journals and books. Sanneke has extensive experience as senior advisor at Crisisplan BV in crisis research, evaluation, training and teaching projects, advising national ministries, safety regions and executive agencies. Current research projects include projects on risk and crisis management, institutionalization of public organizations, blaming and accountability after crises and organizational survival.

She currently serves as the Director of Education for the Institute Board of the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. She is the editor-in-chief of the journal Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy (published by Wiley) and associate editor of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Crisis Analysis (published by Oxford University Press).