John van Duursen

John van Duursen, 1971. A married man. 1st child due by the end of april 2008. (M)BA degrees in International Business and Environmental Management.

I started my first company in 1994 and held it for 4 years. I have worked as a painter in Australia, as an international consultant and as an account manager for multinationals prior to moving into the development space. I was engaged in several projects concerning nature conservation and eco-tourism in Costa Rica, Honduras and Guatemala. In 2003, Derk Norde and I initiated research on sustainability in the cocoa supply chain (mainstream) in Ghana and co-founded Fair Ventures.

As a co-founder of the Business in Development (BiD) Foundation, I am uniting my commercial, business- and entrepreneurial personality with my passion and ambition for sustainable business creation in developing countries. Within the BiD Network, I had responsibilities on managing our partners, the roll-out of the BiD Model to India and the Philippines and commercial developments.

Now, I am responsible to replicate the BiD Model to a sector specific area like water.bidnetwork.org, energy.bidnetwork.org or waste.bidnetwork.org. In case you have ideas or contacts that have an interest to make this a success, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Geluk,

John