ir. ECLJ (Edwin) van der Maden
Senior Advisor | Programme Manager Agriculture Sector Transformationfollow_us_label
Edwin is a system thinker, with a background in agronomy and an MSc in Plant Sciences, Crop Science from Wageningen University. He has over 10 years of professional experience in the international agricultural sector, as project manager, advisor, researcher, trainer, course coordinator and consultant on various themes.
His curious nature, broad expertise, and flexible attitude makes him a multidisciplinary person with the capacity to work in complex and challenging contexts and in interdisciplinary projects and teams. He is able to combine both theoretical and practical knowledge in the food systems domain, and design and implement both conceptual and applied approaches, with the aim to achieve systemic change and impact.
His professional life so far has taken him to India, Ethiopia, Costa Rica, Kenya, Indonesia, Ghana, Jordan, Nepal, Rwanda and Uganda.
At the Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation Edwin is working as Advisor & Programme Manager Agriculture Sector Transformation.