Myrtille Danse Email & Phone Number

Utrecht, Nederland

Utrecht, Nederland

Chair Audit Committee

Chair Strategy Committee, 2019-2022, Co Chair Investment, Impact and Innovation Committee, 2023- ongoing, Member Renumeration Committee, 2022- ongoing

The Netherlands/ Globally

The mission of the Netherlands Food Partnership (NFP) is to advance transformative approaches for sustainable food systems and healthy diets in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Under my leadership, the organization successfully merged AgriProFocus and the Knowledge Platform Food Security into a new legal entity with a revamped governance structure. I.

San Jose, Costa Rica

Hivos is an international organisation that seeks new solutions to persistent global issues. The Latin America Hub is the biggest regional office. The unit had 100 employees and an annual budget of 18 million EURO. The project portfolio was spread over 12 countries in Central and South America and the Caribbean. The regional office is based in Costa Rica.

Utrecht, The Netherlands

The Inclusive Business Fund invests in social enterprises in Africa and other regions with a focus on nutrition and food security, as well as access to basic facilities. Read more at: inclusivebusinessfund.com.

The Netherlands

The mission of the BoP Innovation Center (BoPInc) is to accelerate inclusive business development in low-income, Base of the Pyramid (BoP) markets. I established the social enterprise, built a dynamic team, established local offices in Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria and Bangladesh, and initiated and coordinated several public-private partnerships to create.

The Hague Area, Netherlands

Management of 25 fte business unit. Successful integration of two sub divisions, restructuring of core activities, four years in a row positive financial result of unit. Senior expert sustainable standards and impact indicators for the international agricultural and food sector. Initiator and senior advisor Code of Practice Ethiopian horticulture.

The Netherlands/ Latin America

Design global programEngage new partners experienced in developing social innovations Training local ICCO partners on local market development toolsDevelopment guideline local market development strategies

Central America

• The identification, contracting and monitoring of projects within the program “Trade for Development”.
• Strengthening the trade relation between Dutch companies and the Central American region, by elaborating sector analyses, network building activities and organizing trade promotion activities.
• Monitoring and reporting on national and regional economic affairs and sustainable development issues towards the corresponding Ministries in the Netherlands

Costa Rica/ Central America

• Project acquisition in the field of sustainable management concepts and trade and environment issues, among others responsible for the successful application of the integrated sustainable management proposal to the.
• Organisation development through the design of new training and consultancy methods related to sustainable management of small and medium sized enterprises.
• Design of the integrated sustainable management approach
• Application of ISO 14001, ISO 9001:2000, EUREP–GAP and SA8000 norms within the Central American private sector (among others: 8 coffee Cooperatives and Ahold, Fructa, Icafe, dairy cooperative Dos Pinos, ornamental.
• Management training in areas such as ISO 14001, EUREP GAP, environmental management, sustainable development strategies, sustainability indicators, logical frame work, management of change and strategic planning.
• The implementation of an integral supply chain approach within the Costa Rican- European coffee chain, which consisted of: the successful implementation of the ISO 14001 and ISO 9001 norm in 6 coffee mills, the.

Central America

• Project identification and monitoring in the field of poverty reduction through sustainable development concepts, cleaner production, climate change, Clean Development Mechanism, biodiversity, environmental policy.
• INBIO program, the improvement of strategic planning of the biodiversity institute INBIO and strengthening of commercial activities and its integration with nature conservation programs, 2001-2004
• PROSIGA, program focused on the improvement of environmental policy programs in the 5 Central American Countries and the introduction of new policy instruments such as self regulation, cleaner production programs.
• Namasol, combining nature conservation and sustainable economic development needs in an indigenous reserve in the Caribbean region of Costa Rica, 1998-2002.
• Programs presented by Central American public and private organizations for the Assistance Joint Implementation Program of DGIS and the Clean Development Mechanism through CERUPT (VROM/ SENTER), each more than USD 10.

• UNDP/The World Business Council for Sustainable Development, organization of a Philips workshop on the implementation of the ISO 14001 norms
• Colgate Palmolive, technical and financial evaluation of the CP reforestation projects in Costa Rica (total area: 2000 ha.),
• Del Monte, gap-analysis in which the processes and procedures within their fruit plantations were compared with the ISO 14001 norms.
• Interamerican Development Bank (IADB), development of ISO 14001 training material for the Costa Rican banana sector.
• KPMG Houston/ Costa Rican Government/ International Court Washington, assistant-coordinator in the appraisal process of a 15.000 hectares property which was expropriated by the Costa Rican Government in order to add.
• World Tree Fund, inventory of nature conservation projects in Costa Rica.