Matthijs Brouwer Email & Phone Number

Amsterdam, Nh, Nl

The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands

Advising NL embassies in Africa and Middle-East on their private sector development strategy, how to contribute to an enabling business environment and SDG8 (Sustainable economic growth and decent work). Identifying opportunities for sustainable economic development in collaboration with embassies, private sector, institutions and gov't agencies as part of Dutch gov't Aid, Trade and Investment efforts.

Amsterdam

Proposal development and writing of grant applications for livelihoods, WASH and agri(business) programs in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Iraq, Somalia, Syria, Sudan, Uganda and Yemen, and coordination of consortia for programme development and implementation. Main institutional donors include BuZa, ECHO, EU Trust Fund, GIZ, IHA-GAC, BHA/OFDA, SDC, SIDA, UN pooled funds, USAID

Yemen

Going to Yemen, I registered Medair as a humanitarian agency with the government, set up the office and team of 10 expatriates and 50+ Yemeni staff. Implementing multi-sectoral relief projects (health, nutrition and water sanitation and hygiene (WASH)) in response to the ongoing humanitarian crisis.

Assen - The Netherlands

Consultant Wells Engineer. Operations Engineer for various workovers, achieving 25% cost saving against budget. Front End Wells Design for oilfield development; optimizing well planning, considering existing well-sites versus new drilling pads, environmental impact and cost. Studying opportunities to optimize well abandonments, such as dual casing milling.

Investor/Entrepreneur renting out multipurpose space. Envisioning a long-term investment, my business partner and I acquired a 6000m2 building on the green edge of an industrial area, which we redeveloped to rent-out workspaces, art-studio’s and storage boxes.

Sudan

Assisting in the close-out of Medair’s West-Darfur programme (WASH, health and nutrition). Handing over program activities to communities, INGO’s, UN and line ministries, while fulfilling donor reporting requirements

Afghanistan

Managing a team of up to 9 expatriate and 300 Afghan staff and an annual budget of 40 million USD (AVIPA Plus program funded by USAID), we implemented wheat seed and fertilizer distributions benefitting >600,000 farmers in 31 provinces. In addition we rolled out a farm mechanization program with support systems, providing 4,000 Afghan farmers access to subsidized two-wheel tractors with farm-implements.

Afghanistan

Providing operational support to AVIPA's national seed & fertilizer distribution program and developing / rolling out of monitoring tools for distributions.

Afghanistan / Switserland

Supporting Livelihoods, Food Security and WASH programs in Afghanistan. Implementation as well as program/proposal development.

Netherlands/North Sea

Based at NAM, providing technical support as well-site engineer in drilling and workovers for oil and gas wells on land and offshore rigs. Passed Shell Round 1&2 Well Engineering exams and IWCF supervisor level. Advanced Safety Leadership training, Green Belt training Six Sigma & LEAN.

West Darfur - Sudan

Managing a team of 20+ Sudanese in installation of emergency water supply systems in refugee/IDP camps (tanks and bladders with tapstands, bacteriological water quality testing, chlorination of water sources), construction of wells and latrines, managing supply chains for operation & maintenance of drinking water systems for 90.000 IDPs.

Afghanistan

Implementating Disaster Response and Preparedness Programs in southern Afghanistan. Livelihoods programs, cash/food for work for improvement of irrigation infrastructure, training of farmers/women in kitchen gardens, distribution of seed/fertilizer and other Food/Non Food Items.

Msc, Tropical Agriculture/Irrigation And Water Engineering

Activities and Societies: Member of Navigators Studentenvereniging Utrecht (NSU)

Education record

Masters Thesis at Texas Agricultural Experiment Station in Lubbock, USA. Technical evaluation of a center-pivot variable rate irrigation.