
Manager at E-Urban European City Advisers vzw Brussels
Brussels Area, Belgium

Manager at E-Urban European City Advisers vzw Brussels
Brussels Area, Belgium
Researcher, adviser and project designer for urban regeneration projects with a wide international experience, as well on government and local authority level, as in the fields of research, project design based on diagnostics, project monitoring and -evaluation.
Urban renovation, job creation, professional training, cultural empowerment and conflict-management.
(Research industry)
February 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)
Strategic Consulting, including project planning and design & evaluation and monitoring strategy development in urban (territorial and categorical) regeneration projects.
(Research industry)
September 2005 — Present (4 years 4 months)
Disgusted by the rise of easy euroscepticism, I created "At Home in Europe", then "In Europa Thuis", "L'Europe Chez Soi" and, finally, "In Europa Zu Hause". The blogs favour a radically realistic appreciation of the ongoing European unification.
As of February 15, 2009, each of these blogs is hosted at http://athomeineurope.blogactiv.eu
at Euractiv daily European news.
(Management Consulting industry)
April 2004 — Present (5 years 9 months)
E-Urban is an independent professional Think Tank Website, that supports, links and organizes local authorities, their staff, academic researchers and grassroots workers in difficult urban areas all over Europe. It is published in 4 languages: English, French, German and Dutch.
(Public Policy industry)
July 1992 — December 2001 (9 years 6 months)
Private Cie in Brussels. Consulting, project-management and research/evaluation with: governments, local authorities and ONGs from the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain and other countries. Focus: (re)development of urban areas in difficulties. Networking with other independent colleagues from Germany, France and GB. Continuing in E-Urban vzw.
(Government Administration industry)
April 1982 — June 1992 (10 years 3 months)
Generated new development strategy that focuses on empowering inhabitants of marginalised urban neighbourhoods to embark on a sustainable redevelopment course, including analysis of problems and opportunities (hidden skills) and development of diagnostic, self-evaluation and project-monitoring in 16 Dutch cities.
(Government Agency; Government Administration industry)
September 1970 — March 1975 (4 years 7 months)
Elected to the Council in 1970, reelected in 1974 and nominated alderman responsible for personnel, arts and traffic/public transport. Co-authored a social approach to city renovation.
Lic. , Social and Economic History of Modern Europe , 1959 — 1969
Researcher at International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, Amsterdam City Councillor and Alderman, Manager of Services Development Company in new town Bijlmermeer.
Europe-wide intercity networking on social renewal, European Union development, intercultural relations,literature, poetry
URBACT, Civis Europae