Hanneke Takkenberg | Professor, Erasmus MC & Co-founder, Netherlands Women's Health Research and Innovation Center

Hanneke Takkenberg is Professor of Management Education focusing on Women in Business at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) and Executive Director of Erasmus Centre for Women and Organisations (ECWO).

In these roles her work includes leading RSM’s participation in the European Commission-funded Horizon2020 EQUAL4EUROPE research project, developing and facilitating ECWO’s social safety programme for organisations, and facilitating within ECWO’s programmes, including its trio of signature Executive Education programmes, in-company programmes and gender-balanced leadership events. Prof. Hanneke additionally works with RSM Masters and PhD students who researching different aspects of gender as a supervisor, research co-creator and reader.

Since 2012, Prof. Takkenberg has been Professor of Clinical Decision Making in Cardio-Thoracic Interventions at Erasmus University Medical Center where her current research focuses on prognosis and clinical and shared decision making in cardiovascular interventions, with special attention to male-female differences. At Erasmus MC, Prof. Takkenberg has worked to improve healthcare for women for patients and working conditions for female medical doctors. For that she was recognised with the 2018 Els Borst award for her scientific and societal efforts. In 2019, she received the Caty Asscher award for her efforts to achieve gender diversity in the Erasmus MC and Erasmus University Rotterdam. This was through the founding of VENA (2006), the Erasmus MC network for women in academia, her work as Chief Diversity Officer for EUR (2015-2018) and her initiation of the Diversity and Inclusion programme for the Erasmus MC in 2018.

From 2018 to 2022, Prof. Takkenberg was chair of board of the Dutch Network for Women Professors (LNVH) - a network of over 1300 women professors and associate professors. In 2021 she was awarded Female Academics Moving toward Equity’s (FAME) Athena Award for Erasmus University staff members who have made an exceptional effort to promote female talent.