🟢 We continue the Shaping Sustainable Cities campaign, developed in partnership by UrbanizeHub Romania and the Embassy of the Netherlands in Romania.
🎤 Wim De Kinderen is currently (since 2009) employed within the Brainport Eindhoven EU Office in Brussels, representing the City of Eindhoven, Brainport Development and other economic stakeholders towards fellow regions and the European Institutions. In this role he is responsible for policy lobbying, networking/communication and project development. Within Brainport Development, he is part of the Strategy Department.
In his previous career, he has mainly been involved in regional development issues in Belgium. First as the Province of Antwerp RDA’s European Social Fund expert for the Objective 2 region ‘Kempen’, later as the director of the Regional Socio-Economic Committee for the same ‘Kempen’ region. In between he has been an advisor (‘chef de cabinet adjoint’) to the Belgian federal government on socio-economic and budget policy topics.
💭 Wim De Kinderen is an experienced professional in EU Affairs, both on project development (in areas such as ICT/data, Health, Mobility, Security, Manufacturing etc) and policy lobbying. He has a large
network throughout the EU.
Through his position within the City of Eindhoven and Brainport Development, Wim De Kinderen has strong and interesting links with European networks such as the Vanguard Initiative, but also with ENoLL, Eurocities, ERRIN and OASC.
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