Stef Beek is a political science student at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. Stef has been active as a student representative for several years. In 2002 he took up a post as member of the executive committee of the local union and in 2005 he was elected vice-president of the national union of the Netherlands LSVb. Currently Stef holds a position in the European Students’ Union (ESU) Committee on Commodification of Education.

Handbook articles by Stef Beek:

• Students and the future of the European Higher Education Area (D 1.1)