Advisory Board

Encounter has an Advisory Board. Its members hold important positions in the Netherlands and abroad.

Herman Wijffels

Chairman, co founder of Endounter of Worldviews Foundation
Chairman of the Social Economic Council of the Netherlands (SER)

Theo Camps

Secretary
Chairman Berenschot Group bv

Grace Amponsah-Ababio

Ambassador of Ghana to the Netherlands

Judith Belinfante

Former Secretary of Labour Party (PvdA) Fraction in the Parliament of The Netherlands

Antony Burgmans

Chairman Unilever NV

Coskun Çörüz

Member of Parliament for the Christian Democratic Party (CDA) in The Netherlands

Fons Driessen

Executive coach, Boer & Croon

Phil Lane, Jr.

Director Four Worlds International Institute
for Human and Community Development (Canada)

Ruud Lubbers

UN High Commissioner for Refugees and Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands

Patricia Morales

Director Terra Curanda, Globus Institute, University of Tilburg

Adriaan Nühn

Executive Vice President and Chairman, Board of
Management Sara Lee/DE

Onno Ruding

Chairman, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
Retired Vice Chairman, Citibank
Former Minister of Finance, The Netherlands

Thony Ruys

Chairman of the executive board, Heineken N.V.

Willem P.M. van der Schoot 

Mohan Swami

Executive Chairman Chase Perdana Berhad (Malaysia)

Doekle Terpstra

Chairman of the Christian Trade Union Federation (CNV)

Mariam T´ai

Coördinator - Secretariat for the Promotion of the Discourse on Science, Religion and Development (India)

Johannes Witteveen

Chairman of the International Sufi Movement, Former Chancellor of the Exchequer of the Netherlands