Former Dutch Cabinet Minister Joins International Advisory Council
Washington, D.C. (November 12, 2008) – Ambassador Laurens Jan Brinkhorst, a former Dutch cabinet minister and former member of the European and Netherlands parliaments, joins APCO Worldwide’s International Advisory Council (IAC), Margery Kraus, president and CEO announced today.
“Ambassador Brinkhorst’s extensive experience in both politics and academia has given him a multi-faceted perspective that is an invaluable resource for APCO’s clients and adds another skillful dimension to our IAC,” said Kraus.
“I look forward to being able to engage with such an experienced and talented group of individuals,” said Brinkhorst. “Given my work with both the academic and political communities, I believe my experience will translate seamlessly into thoughtful advice for clients and fellow consultants.”
He was formerly a member of the advisory council of the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C.; a member of the board of governors of the Netherlands Institute for Economics; extraordinary professor of international environmental law at Leiden University; a member of the board of directors of the International Institute of Sustainable Development; and visiting professor of international environmental law at the University of Lausanne.
Brinkhorst is on the board of directors of the Salzburg Global Seminar, originally an American institution of higher learning located in Austria. He is senior adviser to the European Space Agency and is a coordinator of the European Commission for a Trans European Railways Network.
Brinkhorst joins a distinguished set of experts on the IAC, including former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski; Pat Cox, former president of the European Parliament; Itamar Rabinovich, former Israeli ambassador to the United States and former president of and a member of the faculty at Tel Aviv University; and Arthur Hartman, a former U.S. ambassador to both the Soviet Union and France.
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About the International Advisory Council
APCO’s International Advisory Council is a dynamic group of former senior members of government, the media, the diplomatic corps, academia, the business community and nonprofit organizations who work hand-in-hand with APCO’s professionals to counsel clients on a broad range of issues.
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