Boards & Councils

We are building the Impact Economy

The Impact Economy Foundation is lead by a strong board of 9 members. The board is supported by an expertised advisory and academic council.

Our Board

The Impact Economy Board represents standard-setters, practitioners and academics.

Herman Mulder

Herman Mulder

Chair

Mr. Herman Mulder is Co-Founder and Chair of SDG Netherlands, and Co-Founder and Chair of True Price and Impact Economy Foundation. In addition, he currently serves as, inter alia, Advisory Board Member of Social Finance NL, Advisory Board Member of TEEB; and Ambassador of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC). Previously, Mulder was, inter alia, an independent member of the Dutch National Contact Point for the OECD MNE Guidelines (2007-2016); Board Member and Chair of the Global Reporting Initiative (2006-2014); and Director-General and Co-Head of Group Risk Management at ABN AMRO Bank (1998-2006). He was mentioned among “the 100 most influential people in finance” by the US Treasury and Risk Magazine (July 2007). He has received recognition as Knight in the Order of Oranje-Nassau (in 2005) and was promoted to Officer in 2017.Schouten is co-host and sustainability expert on the radio program BNR Koplopers. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of ASN Bank, TNO and the VNCI.

Mr. Jan Truijens Martinez currently holds the position of Senior Associate at Stibbe, where he specializes in EU Law, Competition and Regulation, focusing on complex merger control cases. In addition, Jan is part of Stibbe’s Digital Economy Group that analyzes the legal impact of new business model and technological innovations. Besides being an attorney, Truijens Martinez is a producer of the Foyer nights of the National Opera and Ballet that aims at making Opera accessible for a younger audience. He holds a Masters’ in International Law (2012) and Literary Studies (2010) from the University of Amsterdam. And he is an alumnus of the Amsterdam Global Shapers of the World Economic Forum.

Adrian is the CEO and Co-founder of Impact Institute. He is also the Co-Founder of True Price, the Co-Initiator and board member of the Impact Economy Foundation, and the Director of True Price Foundation. Adrian holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Amsterdam, cum laude, and has served as a member of the Supervisory Board of Utrecht University since 2022. He was recognised as a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum and as one of the top-20 of most influential people in sustainability by the Dutch newspaper Trouw.
Lidwin van Velden is CEO of NWB Bank since April 2018. From 2010 until 2018 she has been Chief Finance & Risk Officer of NWB Bank. She is also member of the Supervisory Board of Pharm Access Group, member of the Supervisory board of Achmea Algemeen Pensioenfonds Foundation and chair of the Working Group Biodiversity that is part of the Sustainable Finance Platform of the Dutch Central Bank.
Before joining NWB Bank, Lidwin held various (managerial) positions at the Dutch Central Bank. She started her career as a Lecturer/Researcher at the University of Amsterdam at which in 1987 she graduated in Economic Science.
Petri Hofsté

Petri Hofsté

Board Member

Teresa Fogelberg

Teresa Fogelberg

Board Member

Jan Truijens Martinez

Jan Truijens Martinez

Secretary

Adrian de Groot Ruiz

Adrian de Groot Ruiz

Board Member

Lidwin van Velden

Lidwin van Velden

Board Member

Dirk Schoenmaker

Dirk Schoenmaker

Board member

Prof. Dr. Dirk Schoenmaker currently holds the position of Professor of Banking and Finance at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. Prior to joining academia, Schoenmaker worked at the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Dutch Ministry of Finance. He also holds various positions including non-Resident Fellow at the Brussels-based think tank Bruegel and Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Research (CEPR).

Jolande Sap is currently chair of the Supervisory Board of the University of Amsterdam. She is also member of the Board of the Dutch Emission Authority (NEA), non-executive director at Renewi and supervisory board member at KPN. In addition she is chairing the Smoke free table of the Dutch National Prevention Agreement and the Supervisory Board of the Springtij Forum on Sustainability.
Between 2008 and 2012, Jolande represented the Dutch Green Party, GroenLinks, in the lower house of the Dutch parliament, leading the party from 2010. Before that she worked as an economist in the fields of science, policy and business. She was a.o. head of the Incomes Policy department at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, and director of the LEEFtijd center of expertise, a consultancy for sustainable employment issues.

Michel Scholte is co-founder of True Price since 2012, and Impact Institute since 2018. The two social enterprises employ ~ 85+ FTE. Finally, he is founding board member of the Impact Economy Foundation.

In January 2021, Michel was elected Minister of the New Economy by the members of MVO Nederland. He is a sought-after keynote speaker and writer on impact economic, True Pricing. Amongst other things, he has started CSRD ACADEMY, CSRD HUB and CSRD DAY, to accelerate the adoption of European sustainability reporting regulation.

Michel holds various advisory positions in the field of impact measurement and impact valuation, including Advisory Board of the Food Transition Advisory Council of Dutch retailer Albert Heijn, Impact investment find Seven Gen, Ambassador to the honours programme of the MBA of University of Amsterdam, alumni Ambassador to the VU University of Amsterdam. And he is former steering board member of the Netherlands Food Partnership. He holds an MSc in Sociology from VU University Amsterdam, and specialised in social research, agent-based modelling and living wages.

Koen Eising is CSR manager of net operator Alliander in the Netherlands.
Werner Schouten is the director of the Impact Economy Foundation. From 2019 to 2021, Schoutenwas chairman of the Youth Climate Movement. In that position, he represented the interests of more than 100,000 young people, students and young professionals at the tables of the Climate Agreement and in the establishment of the coalition agreement. In 2020 he became number 1 in the Trouw Sustainable 100.
Schouten is co-host and sustainability expert on the radio program BNR Koplopers. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of ASN Bank, TNO and the VNCI.
Jolande Sap

Jolande Sap

Board Member

Michel Scholte

Michel Scholte

Board Member

Kevin Krijgsma

Kevin Krijgsma

Treasurer

Koen Eising

Koen Eising

Quartermaster

Werner Schouten

Werner Schouten

Director

Our Advisory Council

The Impact Economy Advisory Council represents key decisions-makers and representatives of stakeholders

Jan Peter Balkenende

Jan Peter Balkenende

Mr. Jan Peter Balkenende currently holds the position of External Senior Advisor at Ernest & Young. Previously, Balkenende served as the Prime Minister of the Netherlands and a Member of Parliament.
Balkenende currently serves as a Member of the Supervisory Board for ING and is a Professor of Governance, Institutions and Internationalization at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Ms. Corien Wortmann-Kool is the Chairman of the Board of ABP Pensionfund. She recently joined the Ministers of Finance of France, Germany and the Netherlands and holds the position of the Co-Chair High Level Expert Group Capitals Markets Union. She is also Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Aegon NV, Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Kadaster and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Save the Children Netherlands. Previously, Wortmann-Kool was Vice-President on Financial, Economic and Environmental affairs and Member of the European Parliament for the European People’s Party Group. She was also a Member of the Transport Committee, the Committee on Gender Equality and a Menmber of the Delegation to the US.
Prof. Dr. Alexander Rinnooy Kan currently holds the position of Professor of Economics and Business at the University of Amsterdam. Additionally, Rinnooy Kan served as a Member of the Senate in the Netherlands
Rinnooy Kan also holds / has held various prominent positions including President of the Supervisory Board of EYE Film Institute Netherlands, a crown-appointed member and Chairman of the Social Economic Council of the Netherlands (SER), and a member of the Executive Board of ING.
Prof. Dr. Herman Wijffels is a Dutch economist who held the position of professor in Sustainability and Societal Change at the Utrecht Sustainability Institute of Utrecht University.

Additionally, Wijffels has held various prominent positions including Chairman of the Executive Board of Rabobank Nederland, Chairman of the Social Economic Council of the Netherlands (SER), and from 2006 to 2008 he was the Dutch representative at the World Bank. In addition, he is Co-Chairman of Worldconnectors, Chairman and Co-Founder of the Sustainable Finance Lab.

Ingrid Thijssen is the chair of VNO-NCW.
Mervyn King is currently a professor at the Wits Business School at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is Chair Emeritus of the Value Reporting Foundation, Chair Emeritus of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) in London and of the Global Reporting Initiative in Amsterdam and a member of the Private Sector Advisory Group to the World Bank on Corporate Governance. He chaired the United Nations Committee of Eminent persons on Governance and Oversight and was President of the Advertising Standards Authority for 15 years and a member of the ICC Court of Arbitration in Paris for seven years. He is chair of the African Integrated Reporting Council and chair of the Integrated Reporting Committee of South Africa.
Corien Wortmann-Kool

Corien Wortmann-Kool

Alexander Rinnooy Kan

Alexander Rinnooy Kan

Herman Wijffels

Herman Wijffels

Ingrid Thijssen

Ingrid Thijssen

Mervyn King

Mervyn King

Barbara Baarsma

Barbara Baarsma

Prof. Dr. Baarsma is CEO of the Rabo Carbon Bank.
Dr. Stephen Young currenly holds the position as Global Executive Director at the Caux Round Table for Moral Capitalism. In this role, he published Moral Capitalism book which is a guide of the Caux Round Table ethical and socially responsible Principles for Business. Young is also a founder and member of the Board of Magni Global Assets, a member of the Executive Committee of the Convention of Independent Financial Advisors in Geneva, and a member of the US Advisory Council to the Papal Fondazione Centemisus Annus. He is an Adjunct Professor in Corporate Social Responsibility at Carlson School of Management - University of Minnesota and Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration - Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.
Peter Bakker is chair of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

Mirjam van Praag is a Dutch econometrician and Crown member of the Social and Economic Council She is chair of the Executive Board at VU University Amsterdam.

Paul Polman

Paul Polman

Steve Young

Steve Young

Peter Bakker

Peter Bakker

Mirjam van Praag

Mirjam van Praag

Our Academic Council

The Impact Economy Academic Council represents the academic field of the Impact Economy.

Dirk Schoenmaker

Dirk Schoenmaker

George Serafeim

George Serafeim

Mijntje Lückerath-Rovers

Mijntje Lückerath-Rovers

Rick van der Ploeg

Rick van der Ploeg

David Fernandez

David Fernandez

Dick de Waard

Dick de Waard

Leen Paape

Leen Paape

Arnold Tukker

Arnold Tukker

Derk Loorbach

Derk Loorbach

Karen Maas

Karen Maas

Sander Onderstal

Sander Onderstal