Monika Sie is General Director of the Clingendael Institute and vice chair of the European Integration Committee of the Netherlands Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV). Sie worked as a researcher and project manager at the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy from 1997 to 2007, where she focused on the European Union, development cooperation and democratic transition and consolidation. From 2008 to 2016, Sie was the director of the Wiardi Beckman Foundation, the Dutch social-democratic think tank. Sie studied and lectures political science at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and lectured in International Relations at Leiden University.