Marjan Schwegman

Marjan Schwegman studied history at the University of Amsterdam.^[2]

From 2003 to 2007 Marjan Schwegman was managing director of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome.^[4] Previously she worked at the University of Amsterdam, Leiden University, Maastricht University and Utrecht University. In Utrecht she became bijzonder hoogleraar (endowed professor) women's history.^[5]

From 2007, she occupied the chair of Politics and Culture in the Long Twentieth Century. Since 2003, her main work is no longer at the university: from 2003 to 2007 she was director of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome. She has been director of NIOD since 2007.^[2]

From 2009–2010, she was vice-chairman of the Commissie-Davids (an independent commission supervised by jurist Willibrord Davids, the 'Davids Committee') which looked into the decision-making process for the Dutch support in the Iraq War.^[6]

On 18 February 2016, Jet Bussemaker decorated Schwegman with the title officier in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau (Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau).

She wrote a biography of the Italian educator Maria Montessori (2000) as well as a biography of the 19th-century Italian feminist Gualberta Beccari, and biographical articles on Giuseppe Mazzini and Cesare Lombroso.^[7]