About me

As an independent innovation consultant, I am dedicated to helping organisations navigate the entire innovation journey, from the initial idea to scaling your innovation for maximum impact. I have extensive experience in the field of participatory integrated assessment and sustainable rural development at the interface of science and public policy at Telos, the Brabant Centre for Sustainable Development in The Netherlands, where I worked between 2000 and 2012. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the development of innovation networks that aim to trigger a transition towards a more sustainable agricultural sector at Wageningen University.

 

​​Throughout my career, I have led or contributed to a number of collaborative research and innovation projects in an international context. Ranging from the European-funded research project SOLINSA: Support of Learning Innovation Networks for Sustainable Agriculture. This project had a strong focus on grassroots innovations in the agricultural sector. The GIZ funded projects ICT4BXW project and ICT4Scaling projects targeting banana farmers in Rwanda. Since 2014 I’ve worked at IAMO - the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies, I was the head of TRAFOBIT research group investigating, investigating the role and functions of bioclusters in transition towards a bioeconomy. In this project we compared bioclusters in Germany, France, Spain, Sweden and the Netherlands.