The Hague · Belgian · International
Innovation strategy and financing for justice, security, peace and governance.
Public–private transitions, joint investment for agility, and guiding organisations in their use of AI. Over twenty years across law, economics, impact investing and innovation.
Advisor · Investor · Anthropreneur · Innovator · Civil servant
Where worlds meet
- PublicPrivate
- LocalInternational
- Bottom-upTop-down
- FuturePresent
About
Building the conditions for collaboration that holds.
I am a Senior Advisor at the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security. My background combines law, economics, impact investing and innovation, with 20+ years in international advisory, entrepreneurial and managerial roles.
I am fascinated by how people and institutions decide and invest together — and how they can do so wisely as AI becomes part of the room. Alongside this, I make things: words, music, websites and innovation ecosystems.
Why
A bridge, for the sake of learning.
What drives me is learning — and I learn most where worlds meet. As a civil servant, founder and investor, a Belgian living in the Netherlands, and someone who has worked across many countries, I find myself standing between perspectives. Holding both sides is where better questions, and better decisions, begin.
Public & private
Public purpose and private initiative each carry knowledge the other needs; bringing them together turns shared ambition into shared investment.
Local & international
Hubs in six markets — from the Netherlands and Ukraine to Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda — taught me that the best ideas travel when they stay rooted in local reality.
Bottom-up & top-down
Practitioners show what works on the ground; institutions make it last. Change grows strongest when both learn from each other.
The world of the future & the real world
Foresight opens the horizon; daily practice keeps it honest. Moving between them makes transitions both ambitious and achievable.
Work
Where I contribute
Ministry of Justice and Security
Senior Advisor Innovation Strategy. I lead innovation strategy, financing and market engagement, develop concrete public–private partnerships, and orchestrate coalitions in automation, AI, data exchange and tackling crime.
Foresight-Transitions
My professional home for methods in foresight, transition, collaboration and joint investment — helping practitioners and entrepreneurs act with clarity on long horizons.
Humanity Solutions
The vehicle through which I contract my private work with practitioners, entrepreneurs and nonprofits.
Creative work
Words, music, websites and innovation ecosystems — craft as a way of thinking.
Record
Results that matter
- Built and scaled a justice accelerator to six global hubs, securing €12M in additional investment.
- Designed and delivered 20+ flagship innovation events and challenges, engaging 1M+ people worldwide.
- As interim manager and advisor via Foresight-Transitions, led the development of €300M+ Growth Fund investment programmes and directed the INNOvember innovation festival: 10K+ participants, 98 organisations.
- Co-created platforms for living wages (ACT on living wages), wildlife justice (Wildlife Justice Commission) and EU-level digital infrastructures.
- Delivered 11 high-profile European and international projects, including border control strategy and migration platforms.
Path
Experience
- 2023 – nowSenior Advisor Innovation StrategyMinistry of Justice and Security, The Netherlands
- 2020 – 2022Interim Manager & AdvisorForesight-Transitions — public-sector Growth Fund investment programmes, INNOvember
- 2019 – 2020Senior Innovation ConsultantInnovation strategy in banking, investment and customer insight
- 2013 – 2018Director, global justice acceleratorOperations in six markets
- 2008 – 2013Entrepreneur, Advisor & Programme ManagerCo-founder; platforms and partnerships in justice and governance
- 2005 – 2008ConsultantStrategy, IT and legal consultancy
- FounderForesight-Transitions · Humanity SolutionsForesight, transition and investment practice
Education
Executive Master in Innovation & Entrepreneurship — Vlerick Business School
Master in International Management & Economics — Humboldt University & Panthéon-Assas University
Master in Law — KU Leuven
Expertise
Innovation & partnership development · Public–private partnerships · Impact investing · Strategy · Feasibility & impact assessment · Coalition building · Interim & portfolio management · Team coaching
Languages
Dutch (native) · English (fluent) · French · German · Spanish · Albanian (basic)
Integrity
Integrity, made transparent
Holding several roles only works when the lines between them are visible. As a rijksambtenaar (Dutch central-government civil servant) I am bound by the Ambtenarenwet 2017 and the Gedragscode Integriteit Rijk. The law sets the floor. The commitments below follow it, and in places go further.
I practise what I advise. The methods I share — for collaboration, foresight, transitions, joint investment and AI — are applied first in my own work and ventures, and I keep studying and testing them.
What I do
- Serve the public first.My primary role is Senior Advisor at the Ministry of Justice and Security. I am bound by the oath or affirmation (ambtseed of -belofte) every civil servant takes, and act as a good civil servant should.
Ambtenarenwet art. 6–7 - Declare every outside activity.All work outside my ministry role (nevenwerkzaamheden), including planned activities, is reported to my employer and kept separate from my public work.
Ambtenarenwet art. 8 - Keep confidential what is confidential.What I learn through my public role stays there, also after I leave it.
Ambtenarenwet art. 9 - Speak in a personal capacity.Views on this site and in my private work are my own, not the ministry’s. Where my public role calls for restraint, I show it.
Ambtenarenwet art. 10 - Work privately, with purpose.For practitioners, entrepreneurs and nonprofits, contracted via Humanity Solutions — pro bono or at reduced rates where social impact calls for it.
- Name conflicts early.Potential conflicts of interest, and even the appearance of one, are declared. When in doubt, I step back.
Gedragscode Integriteit Rijk
What I don’t do
- No paid work for governments.Not for other governments or governmental buyers — ministries, municipalities, agencies or water boards — and no part in public tenders or supplies.
Goes further than the law Ambtenarenwet art. 8 - No paid work in justice and security.That expertise serves the public through my ministry role.
Goes further than the law - No private gain from public access.I never use non-public information or ministry networks for private benefit.
Ambtenarenwet art. 9 Gedragscode Integriteit Rijk - No conflicting financial interests.As an investor, I hold no financial interests that could affect how I do my public job.
Ambtenarenwet art. 8 - No gifts or favours.I don’t ask for or accept gifts, fees or favours from parties I deal with as a civil servant, unless my employer has approved it.
Ambtenarenwet art. 8 - No commercial pitching.I do not pitch commercially to counterparts of the ministry.
See a possible conflict?
Tell me. I would rather hear it early.
Based on the Ambtenarenwet 2017 (articles 6–10) and the Gedragscode Integriteit Rijk. Private engagements also follow the Integrity & Data Protection Principles of Humanity Solutions. Updated October 2026.
Contact
Let’s talk.
For conversations, ideas and collaboration.