
Soziale Stadterneuerung in Europa
Brussels Area, Belgium

Soziale Stadterneuerung in Europa
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)
(Management Consulting industry)
April 2004 — Present (5 years 9 months)
(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