• Official NT2-certificated at the Vrije University of Amsterdam.
• Master of Arts Dutch Literature and Language at Leiden University.
• More than ten years of experience in teaching 'inburgering' and Dutch as
a foreign language to expatriates for multinationals, ambassadors and
embassy staff, academics, Syrian and Eritrean refugees, and spouses of
Dutch nationals at the University of Leiden, Berlitz and other language
schools, and as an independent teacher in Sultanate of Oman and the
Netherlands.
I know business because of my previous experience as:
• A communications advisor to Casema (now Ziggo), Raad voor de
Kinderbescherming (counsil for child protection), Municipality of Assen, and
• A journalist at Rotterdams Dagblad (now Algemeen Dagblad) and the
Maasstad (local Rotterdam newspaper).
