Promoting international understanding and cooperation, by contributing to the rule of law and the international legal order, are central in my career. I worked for inter alia Amnesty International (team manager, 1986-1990), Oxfam Novib (team and project manager, 1990-1996), the Netherlands Helsinki Committee (director, 1996-2009) and the Clingendael Institute (director of corporate staff, 2009-2019). At the Clingendael Institute, I was also temporarily seconded to the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague (operations manager, 2017-2019). As of 2020, I am management partner of Human European Consultancy.
I successfully developed, implemented and managed tailor-made projects and programmes in various Central and East European countries (such as Romania, Bulgaria and Czech Republic) and also in the Netherlands and Turkey. The topics of these projects included: professional training on international human rights law and the rule of law for magistrates, lawyers, police, prison staff and probation staff; and capacity building for professional organisations of judges and prosecutors, human rights organisations, a national probation service and training institutes for magistrates. For ICCT, I provided a training on fund-raising (civil society organisation, Indonesia) and did a project evaluation on the implementation of the ‘Rome Memorandum’ of the GCTF (prison service, The Philippines).
In addition, I succeeded in raising funds for them. My counterparts included international organisations, governments, non-governmental organisations and professionals.
A broad knowledge and professional experience in finance, human resources management, institutional reorganisation, institutional capacity building and governance are part of my toolkit.
Ivette Groenendijk
Project manager
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Ivette in a nutshell - Born in Indonesia (1974) and raised in The Netherlands. After graduation I managed projects in various companies/organisations with a national and international orientation since 1998.
In my daily life as well as in my job, I am interested in issues related to Corporate Social Responsibility. Human European Consultancy works on human rights and non-discrimination projects and I hope I can contribute with my work to a better world for everyone.
I joined in July 2011 as project manage associate/project coordinator, and am currently working as project manager. I am responsible for managing the project(s) from the development of the work programme to the planning and monitoring of the work of the core team and national experts, and from coordinating an annual conference to the development of a project website.
When I am not at the office I work as a volunteer for the NGO Right to Play. I enjoy playing (beach) volleyball with my team mates, exercise my practice in Pilates and Yin yoga and above all travelling around the world with my backpack and camera meeting new people and familiarising myself with their culture, history and interests.
Yvonne van Leeuwen-Lohde
Office manager & project support
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I was born in Germany (1982) and since 2000 I live in the Netherlands. After working for several international organisations, I am proud to work for an organisation which focuses on the real important aspects in life such as people-orientation, honesty, sincerity and freedom! It is absolutely great to be able to contribute to this!
I joined the team of Human European Consultancy in July 2018 and with all the organisation stands for I feel that I can completely be myself. In my role as office manager & project support I am co-responsible for the maintenance of our expert network, the layout of publications, general administration, organising international seminars and meetings, as well as daily general office challenges. With my people skills and extensive experience in building expert networks, project- and resource planning I get the work done in the most efficient way and with a human touch.
If I am not at the office, you can either find me outside jogging or having fun with my kids. Beside this I love making cakes and pies. I am always looking for new and delicious recipes; no challenge is too high.
Rebecca van Midden
Office & Event manager
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After years of working as an office manager, mostly for small commercial companies, working for Human European Consultancy feels like I am finally in the right spot. Before I started working here, I was volunteering for the Dutch council for refugees (Vluchtelingenwerk) in order to help refugees with finding a job and helping them integrate into Dutch society.
I started working at Human European Consultancy in 2015 as an administrative assistant and in 2016 I started working as an office manager. Next to all office manager related tasks, I am responsible for the layout of publications, organising everything for events and/or seminars and the maintenance of all websites.
In my spare time I like to be in the kitchen making my own probiotic drinks and I share my experiences about these drinks on my own blog. Next to being in the kitchen, I love to go scuba diving at exotic spots. When I'm not diving I like to go out for a drink with friends, love to watch American series and do yoga.
Marcel Zwamborn
Jos Kösters