Bert Klandermans is professor in Applied Social Psychology at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Vice-Rector of the University. The emphasis in his work is on the social psychological consequences of social, economical and political change. He has published extensively on the social psychology of participation in social movements and labor unions. He is the editor of Social Movements, Protest, and Contention, the prestigeous book series of the University of Minnesota Press. His Social Psychology of Protest appeared with Blackwell in 1997. He is the editor and co-author (with Suzanne Staggenborg) of Methods of Social Movement Research (University of Minnesota Press, 2002) and (with Nonna Mayer) of  Extreme Right Activists in Europe (Routledge, 2006). He contributed a chapter on Collective Action to Sears et al.’s Handbook of Political Psychology. He is currently working (with Conny Roggeband) on a handbook of Social Movement Studies (Social movements across disciplines) to be published by Springer.

He has served one term at the Governing Council of the ISPP from 1999 2001. He organized with Christ’l de Landtsheer the 22nd Annual Meeting of the ISPP in Amsterdam (1999). He served at the editorial board of Political Psychology (2003-2005), and he chaired the ISPP nominations committee (2005) and the Lasswell and Sanford Award Committee (2006).

He would like to explore the possibilities to establish an online-publication outlet on Political Psychology through ISPP. He would like to expand and strengthen the Society in Europe and among psychologists, especially social psychologists. With the Brazilian Association of Political Psychology he wants to continue to work on the establishment of a summer school at the Latin-American continent (a project Maritza Montero started). He would like to encourage work on collective action, political protest, social movements from a political psychology perspective.