Pieter is Director of Entrepreneurship at the Ministry of Economic Affairs in the Netherlands and has been an EU SME envoy since 2014. He has over 25 years’ experience in policy-making and has worked at the Ministry of Economic Affairs in several management functions.

He was the manager of a joint programme of the Ministries of Economic Affairs and Education, Culture and Science. Entrepreneurship is a topic that runs through his curriculum vitae. As EU SME Envoy, he launched the TEDx Binnenhof Ideas from Europe platform. Pieter has been a member of many entrepreneurship competition juries.