Conference Secretariat

		Charlotte Witte MA Charlotte holds a MA in Landscape History, which she studied at the University of Groningen. During her internship with Landschapsbeheer Drenthe, she has performed research on the possibilities and complications of current landscape management and governance by local inhabitants, comparing the practice of both the former and present markegenootschappen in Drenthe as well as current landscape management collectivities with the theories on ICA’s of Elinor Ostrom. She wrote her master thesis about sand-drifts on the Veluwe area from 1500-1900, comparing the measures of commoners and of the government to halt the drift-sands and evaluating the impact that governmental policy had on the functioning of commons.
		Miguel Laborda Pemán MA Miguel holds a BA in Law (2009) and a BA in Business Management (2009) from the University of Zaragoza, Spain. In 2010 he graduated from the LSE (MSc. Political Economy of Late Development). In October 2011 he joined the ERC Project 'United We Stand' as PhD candidate. He studies the emergence and long-term dynamics of corporate collective action in pre-industrial Europe. His interests include global economic history, long-term economic growth and the political economy of development, particularly the debate on the deeper determinants of growth and the Great Divergence. Miguel hopes to defend his PhD thesis at Utrecht University by end 2016.
		René van Weeren BN BA René van Weeren holds both a BN in Nursing as well as a BA in History. He joined the Research Team 'Institutions for Collective Action' from the very start in 2009 and was as such closely involved with the organization of the Thematic IASC-Conference 'Design and Dynamics of Institutions for Collective Action in honor of prof. dr. Elinor Ostrom', held in 2012 in Utrecht. His work covers a wide range of topics, all related to institutions for collective action. His main research topics are commons and the use of genealogical data for historical research. As of July 2015, René van Weeren is the Executive Director of the International Association for the Study of the Commons, and as such he supports local organizers in preparing and organizing regional, thematic, and biennial conferences. He is also member of the supporting staff of the editorial team of the International Journal of the Commons.