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Wageningen Social & Economic Research appoints New Directors

Lead Author
Perrett Laver
Published
18 Nov 2024
Industry
Research Technology & Innovation
Location
Wageningen, The Netherlands

Wageningen Social & Economic Research appoints two New Directors

 

From 1 January of next year, Dr Marieke Harteveld and Prof Hans van Trijp will start as new institute managers of Wageningen Social & Economic Research. Together with Ir Olaf Hietbrink, they will take up the day-to-day management of Wageningen Social & Economic Research.

The appointment of Marieke Harteveld and Hans van Trijp gives Wageningen Social & Economic Research two managers who bring with them a great deal of relevant knowledge, experience, and networks, both internal and external.

Joost de Laat

WUR Social Sciences Group

Managing Director

The New Directors are Dr Marieke Harteveld and Prof Hans van Trijp

Dr Marieke Harteveld

 

Marieke Harteveld will fill the position of institute manager Global Food Systems Transformation. Harteveld studied biology in Groningen and then did a PhD in Tropical Ecology at Georg August University in Göttingen. She held positions at the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) and Ecofys and worked at IUCN Netherlands as Head Knowledge & Program Development.

Prof Hans van Trijp

 

Hans van Trijp – currently Chair of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour within Wageningen University’s Department of Social Sciences – will take up the position of Institute Manager Sustainable & Innovative Value Chains. Van Trijp studied Human Nutrition in Wageningen and also did his PhD in Marketing and Consumer Behaviour there. He worked as a researcher at WUR and at Unilever R&D.

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