Claudi L. Bockting PhD, professor in Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry at the department of Psychiatry in Amsterdam University Medical Centers and is one of the founders and directors of the interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Mental Health of the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands. She also works since over 30 years as a licensed clinical psychologist. She was a visiting professor at the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School at Harvard University (2023).

Dr. Bockting (co-)authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications in leading journals such as Nature, World Psychiatry, JAMA Psychiatry and Lancet Psychiatry and offers international intervention workshops, including digital interventions, for depression, anxiety and relapse prevention. She received an honorary doctorate of the University of Basel (2022) and an elected membership of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts for her work on improving mental health outcomes in common mental conditions worldwide. She is the recipient of Fellowships at institutions such as Beck Institute International Scholarship Philadelphia, Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Amsterdam, and the World Health Organization.