Guests

Isaac Acheampong (Chairman Interim Advisory Council of Ghanaian associations in the Netherlands)

Isaac Adu-Acheampong (1957) graduated as a Geodetic Engineer from KNUST Kumasi and came to the Netherlands to study for postgraduate degree in Geodetic Engineering and Geographic Information Systems. He then proceeded to study at the Bradford University (UK) where he obtained his masters degree in Business Administration. He studied again at the Erasmus University (Holland) where he obtained his second masters degree in Strategic Business Management. After working for 11years with an Engineering Company, he was employed by the Amsterdam City Council as Project Manager for Social Economic Renewal where he managed and developed integrated strategies to combine hard infrastructure with environmental, social and economic support measures to promote sustainable development in the Amsterdam Southeast district. He is currently the Programme Manager of the European Objective 2 Programme in Amsterdam, which is being funded from the European Regional Development Fund Programme (ERDF). He is the Interim Chairman of the Council of Ghanaian Organisations in the Netherlands.

Hans Eenhoorn (Initiator SIGN)

Hans Eenhoorn (1941) studied Economics and Business-Administration in the Netherlands and in the USA. In 1969 he joined Unilever where he worked for 32 years, ultimately as the senior-vice president in Unilever’s Foods division. He also chaired a working party that developed Unilever’s first environmental sustainability strategy. In 2002 Hans was invited to join the United Nations Taskforce on Hunger, which task it was to deliver action plans to achieve the Millennium Goal of halving hunger by 2015. Two years later he initiated the ‘home grown’ school feeding programme in Ghana, which led to the foundation of SIGN in 2006. Hans is now a board member of this foundation. In 2007 he was appointed Associate Professor for ‘Food security and Entrepreneurship’ at Wageningen University. Until recently Hans was president of SOS-Chldrens-Villages in the Netherlands.