Board of Directors

Erik Thijs Wedershoven
Student, Sciences Po Paris, France

 Erik Thijs Wedershoven was elected as Youth Representative in the Government’s Delegation of the Netherlands to the United Nations (UN) General Assembly during the Night of the UN on 24 October 2004, the first open election in the Netherlands for that position. In the following two years, Erik was a member of the Dutch Government’s Delegation to the UN Millennium Summit 2005, the UN Commission for Social Development 2005 and 2006, the UN Commission on Sustainable Development 2006, and the UN General Assembly in 2004 and 2005. He was involved in drafting resolutions and policies on the national and intergovernmental level, and delivered statements at the UN General Assembly and other relevant fora.

Erik has also been Project Officer for the National Committee for International Cooperation and Sustainable Development at the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam for two years, and continues to be an active member of the Earth Charter Youth Initiative.

In September 2006, Erik took up his studies at University College Maastricht, Maastricht University, for which he spent one semester at University of California in Berkeley in 2008. Erik received his degree on 3 July 2009 and was accepted to Sciences Po’s Master of Public Affairs, starting September 2009. While in university, he accepted board membership of the World Population Foundation and joined the Roundtable of Worldconnectors. Erik also serves on the Board of Advisors of Plan Netherlands.

Erik is fluent in Dutch, English and French, with sufficient level of German and Spanish. His hobbies include judo, acting, and poetry.

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