Willemijn Verloop

Founding Partner at Rubio Impact Ventures · Joined 2014

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Biography

Willemijn Verloop is a Founding Partner of Rubio Impact Ventures, the Amsterdam impact fund she co-founded with Machtelt Groothuis under its original name Social Impact Ventures NL. She founded War Child Holland in 1994 and led the organisation for about fifteen years, and in 2012 co-founded the sector body Social Enterprise NL with Mark Hillen. Earlier in her career she worked at the United Nations Department of Political Affairs in New York and at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, and spent three years as programme manager at the European Action Council for Peace in the Balkans. Rubio's own materials describe her as a serial social entrepreneur and a driving force behind the Dutch social enterprise movement. She was made an Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau in 2007 and received the Roosevelt Institute's Freedom from Fear award in 2008.

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Career Timeline

1994
Founded War Child Holland after a visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina; led it for around fifteen years.
2012
Co-founded Social Enterprise NL with Mark Hillen.
2014
Co-founded the firm, then named Social Impact Ventures NL, with Machtelt Groothuis.

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Rubio team page ↗Rubio person taxonomy (WordPress REST API, roles) ↗Wikipedia - Willemijn Verloop ↗Duurzaamnieuws - Meer geld en nieuwe naam voor Social Impact Ventures ↗