‘The time to act is now!’ A clear call to action of Jan Peter Balkenende with his book ‘Capitalism reconnected’ during memorable night in House of Lords with NBCC Friendship Award for Sir Liam Fox MP for his commitment to 🇬🇧🇳🇱 ec relationship.

#StrongerTogether #NorthSeaNeighbours

Nice meetings and talks in London with the Dutch Ambassador Karel van Oosterom, SDG-'ambassador' Paul Polman and MP Sir Liam Fox, author of the recently published book 'The Coming Storm. Why water will write the 21st Century'.

Pleasure to welcome former Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende (for whom I worked as foreign policy and defence advisor 2006-2010) to London and discuss his new book “Capitalism reconnected, Towards a sustainable, inclusive and innovative market economy in Europe”.

Inspiring Book Launch 'Capitalism Reconnected', organized by the Netherlands British Chamber of Commerce in London, with Lord Taylor of Holbeach, Lyne Biewinga, moderators Fleur Launspach and Peter Foster and speakers Robert Falkner, David Henig and Liam Halligan. Great event!

Great to have met again, Paul! And thanks for supporting Govert Buijs' and my book 'Capitalism Reconnected'. You call it a must read. The same counts for your and Andrew Winston's book 'Net Positive'.

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En de foto van de promovendus Govaers.

Vandaag academische promotie van mr.drs. Evert-Jan Govaers aan de Universiteit Leiden op het proefschrift 'Ministers van Staat'. Van harte geluk gewenst! Bij de plechtigheid waren vier van de acht Ministers van Staat aanwezig: Korthals Altes, De Hoop Scheffer, Donner en ik.

'Future of Capitalis 2024' is an online course for students of 16 business schools, organized by prof. Tomoyoshi Noda of Shizenkan University. An honour to have given a presentation 'Roles and Responsibility of Enterprise and Leadership' with Paul Polman and prof. Govert Buijs.

En dit was de gezellige ontmoeting.

Prachtige en inspirerende avond Hour of Power Live 2024 in Gouda. En na afloop gezellige ontmoeting met Jan van den Bosch, burgemeester Pieter Verhoeve en ds. Bobby Schuller.

Ambassador of Bangladesh Hamidullah, thank you very much for your hospitality at the National Day Reception. It was a great event!

Bijzondere dag: artikel DSGC over kabinetsformatie in de Volkskrant, afscheid als lid van de Sustainability Advisory Board van Van Oord (met dank aan Pieter van Oord) en zeer inspirerende Professor F. de Vries Lecture door prof. Mariana Mazzucato: Common Good as Design Principle

EY and NVDE proudly announce the EY Renewable Energy Day on April 12.

Join this event packed with insights from TenneT TSO, Uniper, APG, Invest-NL and EY, moderated by Jan Peter Balkenende.

Register here: go.ey.com/3VhZAbI

#EnergyTransition #Renewableenergy

Succes in het Europees Parlement! Terechte aandacht voor het Europese en Nederlandse concurrentievermogen. Die aandacht is hard nodig. En waardering van het noemen van ons boek 'Capitalism Reconnected' over een duurzame, inclusieve en innovatieve markteconomie in Europa.

Een groot genoegen weer terug te zijn in de Raadzaal van Amstelveen voor het houden van de Probus-lezing 'Verantwoordelijkheid altijd, altijd verantwoordelijk'. Dank - burgemeester Poppens - voor de gastvrijheid!

Thank you Ambassador Frijs-Madsen for organizing this excellent meeting! It was a joy attending your residence together with your Nordic-Baltic colleagues. Very much appreciated.

Busy but nice week: meeting with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, exchange of views with Ambassadors of Nordic and Baltic states, organized by Danish Ambassador Jarl Frijs-Madsen, meeting with Korean Ambassador Hyoung Chan Choe, Probus-speech in Amstelveen and an EY CFO-event.

An honour to have moderated the 'ESG event: from global design to local implementation', organized by the Foreign Bankers Association and EY. With contributions of Mark Selles (FBA) and EY colleagues Bouke Evers, Michael Schut and Gysbert van Wyk.

Leuke ontmoeting tijdens het uitstekend georganiseerde ABN AMRO Open Tennistoernooi in Ahoy Rotterdam.