Just de Leeuwe, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Just de Leeuwe, Licence Manager, TU Delft Repository Project Leader, Delft University of Technology

Q: What led you into your chosen profession?

A: After a study of Social and Economic History at the University of Amsterdam the opportunties for getting a job in that profession were pretty low in the early nineties of the last century. I chose to be retrained as an Information Manager. I studied first for archivist and later for Document Manager at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Besides the study I wrote a biography of S Sarphati, a famous figure in 19th-century Amsterdam. After various jobs in the information area, among them at a firm of consulting engineers, I settled in 2001 at the Central Library of Delft University of Technology. Today I still work there as a policymaker, specializing in licensing and digital repositories.

Q: What book are you reading right now?

A: The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl.

Q: Who do you admire the most (past or present) and why?

A: All those anonymous people who built up our country after the Second World War, giving my generation the level of prosperity we have today.

Q: What was the first and last music record you bought?

A: First: You're in my heart by Rod Stewart (single). Last: Aerial by Kate Bush.

Q: If you could have any career other than your chosen profession, what would you choose?

A: Artist of graphic novels.

Q: If you could have dinner with any three people, past or present, who would they be?

A: Edgar Allen Poe (1809–1849), Albert Speer (1905–1981) and Samuel Sarphati (1813–1866).

Q: Money no option, where would you like to go on vacation?

A: With my wife and little girls to a Greek island in springtime, on my own to Cambodia.

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