Speakers

Mr. Pim Kraan is the CEO of Save the Children Netherlands since September 2014 and is the CEO sponsor for the Global humanitarian work of the Save the Children. He is a member of the Save the Children International Management Committee and bears specific responsibilities for guiding the humanitarian team and Save the Children Europe. He is founding father of the Dutch Relief Alliance; a unique collaboration between 14 Dutch based International NGO’s.

After MSF Mr. Kraan worked for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs for 19 years; he was the Deputy Head of the Humanitarian Aid division and led the response to the flooding in Mozambique in 2000 and the Asian tsunami of 2004. He was deputy Ambassador to Singapore from 2006 till 2010.

Mr. Kraan started in the humanitarian sector in the nineties as a member of the Docters Without Borders (MSF) Emergency Team. He coordinated missions in countries such as Rwanda, Bangladesh, Uganda, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Iraq, Angola and Azerbaijan.net