Jeroen Maas, Msc, MA

Jeroen Maas was a part-time lecturer at the Athena Institute for the past eight years and joined as a full-time project manager / researcher in 2009. He teaches management of innovations and management of health care organisations. Currently, his primary research topics are entrepreneurship in developing countries and the uptake and distribution of social and technical innovations to uplift livelihoods at grassroots level in Bangladesh. Before joining Athena, he worked at Atos Consulting as a management consultant, involved in the organisational change management that accompanies the introduction of innovative techniques in multinational companies (care organisations and industry). He was a policy writer at the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. Prior to this, he was consultant in Kenya for a number of organisations involved in socio-economic development, water and sanitation, clean air, and responsible energy initiatives. He received his master's degrees in Biology and in Communication, Organisation and Management from the VU University Amsterdam, and started his first projects for the VU University in Bangladesh in 1998.