Derk Norde

I graduated in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Amsterdam.

After my graduation and and having set up a Internet company in 1999, I got more interested in human behaviour, and took a course in international management (European Postgraduate Course for Environmental Management - EPCEM).

Here I met John van Duursen, and after a field research project in Ghana, together we founded the business consulting company Fair Ventures in 2003. In cooperation with Thierry Sanders from NCDO, Fair Ventures subsequently founded the BiD Challenge and this website in 2004.

Currently I'm living in Argentina, from where I manage the Latin America region for BiD Network Foundation, which we established late 2006. We currently set-up national BiD Challenge competitions and investor networks in Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia and Ecuador, while exploring synergies between Europe and Latin-America, as well as within the region.

For more information or interesting propositions, you can always contact me by email or through this website.