The NIAS Directorate installs an Academic Advisory Board (AAB) which has the task of advising the NIAS Directorate on the selection procedure and to rank applicants, on which basis the NIAS Directorate makes decisions about the allocation of fellowships.
Members of the Academic Advisory Board are:
- Professor Halleh Ghorashi, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Sociology (chair)
- Professor John R. Bowen, Washington University in St. Louis, Anthropology
- Professor Sven Dupré, Utrecht University, History and Art History
- Professor Erika Kraemer-Mbula, University of Johannesburg, Business and Economics
- Dr. Timo Makori, Maastricht University, Globalisation, Transnationalism and Development
- Professor Joyashree Roy, Asian Institute of Technology, Economics
- Prof Pablo Valdivia Martin, University of Groningen, Cultural Studies