Ineke Sluiter is Distinguished Leiden Professor of Greek at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. Her research focuses on ancient ideas on language, public debates, and the use of value discourse, and connections between classics and the modern world. She leads the Gravitation Grant research program: Anchoring Innovation. Winner of the Spinoza prize 2010. She is a former President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), and a member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities and of the Academia Europaea.