The International Academic Advisory Board, composed of recognised experts, accompanies the VWI and provides guidance on the Institute’s research and programme development. Board members are elected by the General Assembly for a three-year term.

In addition to their academic qualifications in their respective disciplines, they contribute extensive interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary expertise relevant to the VWI’s research topics and fields. The current members of the International Academic Advisory Board of the VWI are: Nanci Adler (NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam) Natalia Aleksiun (University of Florida, Gainesville) Tim C.

Cole (University of Bristol) Elisabeth Gallas (Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow, Leipzig) Jürgen Matthäus (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC) Nadège Ragaru (Sciences Po, Paris) Dirk Rupnow (University of Innsbruck) David Silberklang (Yad Vashem – The World Holocaust Remembrance Center, Jerusalem)