
Organization / Workplace
Access to Seeds IndexLocation
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands NetherlandsOccupation
Executive Director Access to Seeds IndexIndustry
Government / Military
Website
www.accesstoseeds.orgAbout
After a track record of 15 years experience in corporate responsibility, developing the Access to Seeds Index is a great challenge. "We have to start seeing companies are part of the solution, not the problem" was the catch phase of the debates we organized in the Amsterdam Think Tank De Balie in the nineties, when the idea just came up. Quite an eye-opener for a left-wing institute. To really see through this potential, I thought it was essential to immerse in the corporate world, which I did at the dutch consultancy firm BoerCroon. Here I supported companies like Heineken, KLM and TNT in the development of their corporate responsibility and philanthropy practices. To get companies mov...