Board Memberships and Honarary Functions
President of the Board of United World Colleges Netherlands (www.uwc.nl) to help make education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future.
Member of the Board of CARE Netherlands (www.carenederland.org) partner of CARE International, one of the world´s top three aid agencies, fighting poverty and injustice in 70 countries around the world and helping 55 million people each year to find routes out of poverty. Want to be one of the richest people in the world? Look at the Care Global Rich List!
Member advisory board Getu Foundation (www.getufoundation.org), which provides information concerning health care and education in Zambia and other African countries. Our first project is the Lusaka Health Institute (LHI), school of nursing.
Member Women on Top (www.women-on-top.nl) advocating more women in top positions, fighting the feminization of poverty and providing solidarity with women around the world.
Committee of Recommendation of the International Democratic Initiative Foundation (www.democrats.nl) which supports transition to democracy in Eastern Europe, the Balkan, the Middle East and Northern Africa.
Advisory Council Rainbowtree Foundation (www.regenboogboom.nl) to help (terminally) ill children and their families.
Steering Board Member Apeldoorn Conference (http://www.britishcouncil.org/netherlands-networks-apeldoorn.htm ) launched in 1999 by Prime Ministers Wim Kok and Tony Blair to bring together a representative and informed group from the UK and the Netherlands on a regular basis to reflect on issues of political relevance and shared concern.
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Goodwill ambassador Netherlands Heart Foundation (www.hartstichting.nl)
Founder and President of the Foundation for a Better Europe (www.betereuropa.nu) cross-party organization that led the YES campaign on the referendum for a European Constitution in 2005
Member advisory board Foundation for Agriculture, the Environment and Care (http://www.landbouwzorg.nl) promoting the use of farms for social and health projects such as handicapped care and addiction and criminal rehabilitation.
Ambassador Clean Air Now www.cleanairnow.nl which successfully banned smoking in public areas from July 1, 2008.
Ambassador Women on Board (www.womenonboard.nl) stimulating higher female employment rates.