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Alfons van Duijvenbode

Alfons holds a Masters degree in international development studies and international economic relations. Alfons has more than 18 years professional experience as a consultant and trainer in the field of international development, and has worked in more than 35 countries.

The profile in short:

• Senior trainer and consultant on international marketing management, market information systems, and e-business for companies and trade promotion organisations in developing countries and countries in transition.
• Senior trainer and consultant for NGO’s in developing countries on project identification, formulation, assessment and management, planning, monitoring and evaluation systems, organisational strengthening, relationship management, income generation, marketing and business planning.
• Advocate of responsible management, based on fair business principles.
• Among the clients are national and international development organisations, multilateral organisations, trade promotion organisations, international management consultancy firms and other private companies.

Bastiaan Bijl

Bas is an associate with iD consultancy since 2006. He has 12 years of professional experience as a trainer, adviser and analyst in the field of international trade development. He holds a Masters Degree in Economic Geography for Developing Countries and has broad international experience having lived in, worked in and visited over 50 countries.

The profile in short:

• Senior trainer in export market analysis and research for companies and trade support organisations in developing countries and economies in transition
• Market researcher and analyst in the field of trade development
• Advisor on Market Information System building for trade support organisations
• Among the clients are national and international development organisations, multilateral organisations, trade promotion organisations and private companies

Vincent Rouwmaat

Vincent has over 20 years of international experience as a project manager and consultant in economic and organization development. Vincent started his consulting and project management career in the Netherlands, where he is still based. He expanded his geographical, professional and cultural horizon to the whole of Europe in 1994 to do assignments in Central and Eastern Europe and went fully global in 2000 to work for client organisations in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Areas of expertise:

• Project Management, Terms of References and Project, Project & Programme & Evaluations
• Workshops for policy makers, business support organisations and entrepreneurs
• Export development (for SMEs [micro] and Trade Promotion Organisations [meso])
• Business Innovation and Incubation
• Economic Research
• SME-policy and Regional Policy development
• Information, Organisation and Institution Development

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