MDF Group
Given our deliberate choice to serve as a facilitator and broker in knowledge and experience on management and organisation, we bring our products and services close to our clients. This is why we have chosen to open up regional branch offices and to enter into partnerships with like-minded organisations.
The MDF Head Office is located in Ede, the Netherlands and comprises MDF - Training and Consultancy Pvt. Ltd., which implements all regular courses, tailor-made courses and consultancy assignments, and the MDF Foundation. Since early 2001, the role of the Foundation is restricted to applied research and product development. The results are applied and utilised by MDF Training & Consultancy.
Branch offices
In addition the Group comprises five regional branch offices: MDF South Asia in Sri Lanka, MDF Brussels in Belgium, MDF East and Southern Africa in Tanzania, MDF Indochina in Vietnam, MDF Afrique Centrale in D.R. Congo and MDF West Africa. We have also started with a MDF NL branch office, situated in the Head Office in Ede and working with clients in the Duch market mostly related to participatory processes in the Netherlands.
In total the Group employs about 90 permanent staff members and in addition calls upon experts from its
satellite network or its pool of associated free lance experts.
Strategic partners
In addition, we have strong, strategic partnership relations with organisations in Burkina Faso, Bénin, Cameroun, Ethiopia, Georgia, Kenya, Macedonia, Mali, Netherlands Antilles, South Africa, Suriname, Tanzania and Togo. See our list of partners ...
MDF Board of Advisers
Poul Bakker
Independent Consultant
Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Lem van Eupen
General Manager Radio Netherlands Training Centre
Hilversum, the Netherlands
Jeroen de Lange
Manager Strategy, Knowledge and Innovation, Cordaid
Ex senior Economist World Bank and Dutch diplomat
Broek in Waterland, the Netherlands
Peter Knorringa
Associate Professor in Local & Regional Development
Institute of Social Studies
The Hague, the Netherlands
Nadira Mirza
Dean
School of Lifelong Education and Development Director of Access and Community Engagement
University of Bradford, UK
Klaas Molenaar
General Director Triodos Facet BV
Zeist, the Netherlands
Kees Zevenbergen
Director ConsultINQ
Maasbommel, the Netherlands
MDF Board of Directors
Herman Snelder Director
Mike Zuijderduijn Director
MDF South Asia Director
Ineke Ann Pitts
MDF Brussels Director
Melinda Wezenaar
MDF Eastern & Southern Africa Director
Bas Beisiegel
MDF Indochina Director
Pui Yee Chan
MDF Afrique Centrale Director
Annet Bok
MDF West Africa Director
Marie-José Niesten
MDF Nederland Director
Niek Bakker
MDF Pacific Indonesia Director
Bart van Halteren
MDF Latin America Representative
Chiel de Wit
