Huib Riethof

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Researcher, adviser and project designer for urban regeneration projects with a wide international experience, as well on government and local authority level, as in the fields of research, project design based on diagnostics, project monitoring and -evaluation.

Specialties
Urban renovation, job creation, professional training, cultural empowerment and conflict-management.

Experiences

• Huibs EUROBLOGS : 09/2005 - Present
  Editor
  Disgusted by the rise of easy euroscepticism, I created "At Home in Europe", then "In Europa Thuis", "L'Europe Chez Soi" and, finally, "In Europa Zu Hause". The blogs struggle for a radically realistic appreciation of the ongoing European unification. The link to the e-urban site provides an overview.
• E-Urban vzw : 04/2004 - Present
  Editor
  E-Urban is an independent professional organization, that supports, links and organizes grassroots workers in difficult urban areas all over Europe. It is published in 4 languages: English, French, German and Dutch.
• Postquam European Consultants, Brussels : 06/1991 - Present
  Manager
  Strategic Consulting, including project planning and design & evaluation and monitoring strategy development in urban (territorial and categorical) regeneration projects.
• Ministry of the Interior (Local Authorities, Immigration Policy), The Hague, The Netherlands : 04/1982 - 06/1992
  Urban Regeneration Project Manager
  Generated new development strategy that focuses on empowering inhabitants of marginalised urban neighbourhoods to embark on a sustainable redevelopment course, including analysis of problems and opportunities (hidden skills) and development of diagnostic, self-evaluation and project-monitoring in 16 Dutch cities.

Education

• Universiteit van Amsterdam : 01/1959 - 12/1969
  Lic., Social and Economic History of Modern EuropeResearcher at International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, Amsterdam City Councillor and Alderman, Manager of Services Development Company in new town Bijlmermeer.
  Activities and Societies:
  Sociaal-Historische Studiekring