City Safari: Managing director for international opeartions
City Safari provides custom made encounters with the daily life of the city. In Rotterdam, Utrecht and Amsterdam over three hundred hosts invite you into their homes and workshops, institutions and places of worship, shops and clubs. Doors that remain closed for others, are opened by City Safari to satisfy your curiosity. A typical City […]
Liberal party comittee for Foreign affairs
VVD is the liberal party of the Netherlands and currently the biggest in parliament and the leading party in government. The party committee for Foreign Affairs, Development Co-operation and International Trade provides policy support for the members of parliament, the senate and the European parliament. From December 2007 till November 2012 I served as secretary […]
Urban solutions for tourism, culture and urban development.
I’m good at predicting what works and what doesn’t in a very complex environment like a big city where success or failure depends on the millions of individual decisions taken every day by the people on street level in the urban area. In the fields of tourism, culture and urban development I have a good […]
Almere Waterfront
In 1995 schreef ik: “Ruim tien jaar geleden opende Prénatal een winkel in Almere Stad. Het was de grootste Prénatal van Nederland en dat had de ondernemer goed gezien. Almere had immers een enorme aantrekkingskracht op twintigers uit de grote stad die een gezin wilden stichten. Die baby~boom dient zich nu aan op de tienermarkt. […]