Arendo Joustra

Arendo Joustra (born 19 July 1957, in Vlissingen) is a Dutch writer and journalist.

Joustra was the editor in chief of the Dutch newsweekly Elsevier for 24 years and a commentator on politics and the Dutch monarchy. He is a co-author of books on the Dutch prime minister Ruud Lubbers and the author of a book on the Danish writer Karen Blixen. He studied journalism in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and at Iowa State University (1979–1980).

Career Before joining Elsevier as a reporter in 1989 he worked for eight years as a social affairs and political correspondent for the daily newspaper de Volkskrant. At Elsevier he was a political writer, bureau chief and correspondent in Brussels, Belgium, to cover European politics. He took on the role as deputy editor in 1996 and as editor in 2000.

He is a member (deputy chair) of the Supervisory Board of the Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid in Hilversum, a member of the Academy of the Gouden Ganzenveer in Amsterdam, a board member of the Willem Oltmans Foundation in Amsterdam, and a member of the jury of the Zilveren Camera, a Dutch prize for photojournalism and documentary photography, in Hilversum.

From 2006 to 2010 Joustra served as president of the Nederlands Genootschap van Hoofdredacteuren, the Dutch Association of Editors. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Roosevelt Study Center, now called the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies, in Middelburg, the Netherlands (2013-2020), and of the Press Museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.