Team/Author

I have over 25 years of experience in professional communications, journalism, training, film and media. I worked in business communications and as a sports reporter while completing a journalism diploma, and trained as a copy editor at the Wall Street Journal Europe. In 2001, I joined ESN, a Brussels communications agency, where I was eventually head of editorial.
For me, joining the Impact Investing team feels like a natural confluence of experiences in business, journalism, the environment and social justice all coming together.
Writing projects on the side include a contemporary novel (Ray of Hope), and I also regularly document my experiences and travels on an award-winning blog, Chronikler.com.

I’m a London-based journalist with three decades of experience covering social and economic development and business, mainly in Africa and Asia, as well as reporting on the energy transition.
I started out at Reuters, before turning freelance and basing myself in the Middle East and Spain for several years. I have written for a variety of publications, including the Economic Intelligence Unit, African Business and Euromoney titles. I have also written reports on development themes for IFIs, commercial banks, consultancies, and NGOs.
My work has included on-the-ground research into the impact of NGO funding of small businesses and agricultural programmes, highlighting the importance to impact investors of getting the biggest bang possible for their buck.

As a young kid, I decided to become a journalist, and I still am one. My work has covered a range of subjects, but what probably ties them all together is a focus on social relevance. I worked as an editor of Dutch magazines on development cooperation and on corporate social responsibility, traveled extensively, especially in Africa and Asia. I also wrote travel guides as well as publications on sustainable tourism, conflict prevention, innovative financing instruments for development, and most recently social impact bonds. To me, writing about impact investing fits in seamlessly with all of the above.

I have significant global experience at the highest levels of the asset management, banking, family office, and pensions industries, and was an early innovator in responsible investing. Since 1998, I have been working as a senior journalist and columnist specializing in thought pieces, book reviews, and industry leader profiles (The Times, The Independent, Responsible Investor, IPE and Impact Investor). I’m based in London, the United States, and my wildlife sanctuary in France.

I’m a multi-media business & sports business writer and journalist, who has worked for the world’s biggest media companies, including the Daily Telegraph, the BBC, De Telegraaf and a decade at Bloomberg News. I went freelance in 2015, and am currently a contributing writer for CNN Online, Forbes Sportsmoney, S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Daily Dose and Impact Investor. Raised on a farm in the Dutch countryside, I’ve been based in the U.K. since 2002. When I’m not working, I can be found running around on a tennis court or cycling on the beach with our young son. Passionate about leaving our world a better place for the next generation.

I have been a financial journalist for nearly 30 years with Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and Fortune, for whom I covered the Volkswagen emissions scandal in 2015/6. That episode strengthened a long-standing passion in me for cleaner energy and mobility. I believe firmly that business can and should be a force for good in raising the quality of life everywhere, and that proper incentive structures and outside scrutiny are indispensable to that.