Ruben van Genderen joined Clingendael in May 2011. Before he worked as an intern for the Clingendael Diplomatic Studies Programme and the Western and Central Europe Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At Clingendael he is studying the potential of water diplomacy for Dutch foreign policy in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Water Governance Centre. The research on water diplomacy evaluates this potential from three perspectives, namely, niche diplomacy, economic diplomacy and conflict prevention.