Position: Head of Educational Services

Short CV: I trained as a nutritionist at Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands from 1983-1990 and subsequently worked for almost 20 years in development cooperation. From 1994 onwards I was based in Mozambique as a technical advisor of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation to the Nutrition unit of the Ministry of Health and later as the country director of Helen Keller International, in both positions focussing on nutrition, food security and child health issues. In 2004 I joined the Bernard van Leer Foundation in The Hague, The Netherlands, as a programme specialist responsible for the grant management of their early childhood care and education programmes in East Africa.

Since 2009 I have managed the education services department of the European Platform. This department runs school networks and school support programmes on bilingual education, early language learning (ages 4-12), European and international orientation, and the teaching of modern foreign languages (mainly French and German).