Meet the Worldconnectors
(Inter) National Government Actors
Joan Boer Ambassador for the Netherlands in Bangkok and former Ambassador of the Netherlands to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Joke Brandt Former Director-General of the Department of International Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As of early 2012 Deputy Executive Director of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
Ruud Treffers Executive Director at the World Bank. Until October 2008 he was Director-General of International Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Roel van der Veen Academic Adviser at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Rob Visser Anthropologist and former Chief Scientist at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Karen van Oudenhoven- van der Zee Professor of Organisational Psychology, Cultural Diversity and Integration at the University of Groningen in 2011. She is now Dean of Behavioral Sciences at Twente University.
Monika Sie Dhian Ho Director of the Wiardi Beckman Foundation.
Knowledge and Advisory Centres
Halleh Ghorashi Professor of Management of Diversity and Integration at the VU University (Vrije Universiteit) in Amsterdam.
Hans van Ginkel Chair of the Institute for Social Studies in The Hague and of the Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung in Bonn and honorary professor in Human Geography and Planning at Utrecht University. He is former Rector of the United Nations University, Tokyo.
Paul Hoebink Director of the Centre for International Development Issues and Head of Department of Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen.
Doekle Terpstra Former President of the Netherlands Association of Universities of Applied Sciences, ‘HBO-Raad’. Doekle Terpstra is currently Chairman of the Board of Hogeschool Inholland.
Religious Leadership
Rudy Rabbinge Professor of Sustainable Development and Food Security at Wageningen University and former member of the Dutch Senate for the Labour Party. Prof. Rabbinge is also a member of the FAO High Level Panel of Experts Steering Committee.
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Tariq Ramadan Professor of Islamic Studies at the Faculty of Theology at Oxford University.
Annelies Zoomers Professor of International Development Studies (IDS) at Utrecht University and chair of the IS-academy on land governance (LANDac).
Ineke Bakker Former director of the Oikos Foundation and General Secretary for the Netherlands Council of Churches. Ineke Bakker is currently Director of Stek, the foundation for city and church in The Hague.
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Awraham Soetendorp Rabbi of the Union of Dutch Reform Jewish Communities. He is also Earth Charter Commissioner, ambassador for the MDG’s, President of the Jacob Soetendorp Institute of Human Values and active for Green Cross and One Voice.