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Van Dusseldorp & Partners activities can be divided into three groups: Pan European Internet research, TV meets the Web, and PR and Organisation activities.

Monique van Dusseldorp, Founder and CEO

Monique van Dusseldorp (1965) is the founder and CEO of Van Dusseldorp & Partners, an Amsterdam based research company focussed on European internet developments. Van Dusseldorp & Partners provides research and analysis, pan-European data gathering, access to new media networks, as well as project management and organisation. Activities include the TVmeetstheWeb seminars and network, newsletter Europemedia, as well as IPtop, an award for best European online publication.

Van Dusseldorp also initiated the non profit European Internet Seminars Associations which organises an annual summerschool for graduate students and young professionals from Central and Eastern Europe as well as Africa (organised and developed in cooperation with Isoc and the Amsterdam Maastricht Summer University.)

Van Dusseldorp previously worked at the European Institute for the Media in Dusseldorf, Germany, which she joined in 1992 when it was still based in Manchester. She later became the institute's Director of Communications and a member of the management team. From 1997 to 1998 she worked as a media analyst for Dutch publishing and media house Wegener Arcade. 

Van Dusseldorp is an advisor to a number of organisations on Internet issues.
She is a trustee of the 21st Century Trust (London), a Member of the Board of the Interactive Professionals Association Netherlands (Ipan), a Member of the Jury of the Stockholm Challenge (previously the Bangemann Challenge) and a Member of the Jury of the US Interactive Newspaper awards.

Van Dusseldorp is also an adviser to start up OOIP, a Member of the Board of Dutch public broadcaster NPS, a Member of the advisory committee "Verkenningen ICT of the Dutch 'Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en technologiebeleid', and she was a Member of the "Brinkman Committee' which advised the State Secretary for Transport, Public Works and Water Management on the location for Kenniswijk, a public/private partnership to establish a large scale broadband applications pilot in Eindhoven.

The Online Journalism Review listed Van Dusseldorp among the "50 International names to know on the Internet". 

monique@vandusseldorp.com
 
 

Sales and Marketing

Lucie Hime, Director of Sales and Marketing
Formerly Associate Publisher at Elsevier Business Information in Brussels, Hime has worked within Reed Elsevier in the UK and continental Europe for 10 years. Her experience in the print and online publishing and advertising industry largely specialised in B2B European markets in sectors such as retail, hospitality, drinks/duty-free and electronics. Major accounts handled included Tesco, Jaffa, St Ivel, Nestle, LVMH, Allied Domecq, Seagram, Texas Instruments and Xemics. Her most recent project was the planning and development of a B2B portal site – hyperelectronics.com - for design engineers in the European electronics and telecoms markets.  
Languages: English, French
lucie@vandusseldorp.com

European Internet Research

Matthijs Leendertse, Senior Research Associate
Matthijs Leenderste studied Communications at the University of Amsterdam. His past academic research includes work on the market liberalisation in Europe's telecom markets, the auctioning of UMTS frequencies in the Netherlands and the possibilities for corporations to launch free ISP's in The Netherlands. He worked for the Amsterdam School of Communications Research on a project on off- and online Financial and Economic Information provision in The Netherlands. Specialist areas of research include: ISP's markets in Europe, broadband Internet developments and Internet content providers.
He is a co-author of 'Broadband Landscape Europe: Market Assessment and Forecast to 2003', a report published in January 2001 in cooperation with Screendigest. 
Languages: Dutch, English, German, French
matthijs@vandusseldorp.com

Dr. ir. Frans van Mieghem, Senior Research Associate
Frans van Mieghem studied in the Netherlands, UK and France, and has a PhD in Biochemistry and Biophysics, as well as a post graduate degree in journalism. Previously he worked as a scientific reporter, and as researcher in universities and institutes in France and the Netherlands.
Languages: Dutch, French, English, German, Spanish
frans@vandusseldorp.com

Ashley Smith, Senior Research Associate
Ashley Smith graduated in Investment and Financial Markets. Until recently, he worked as a Senior Information Researcher at Deutsche Bank in London. Previously he was an Information Researcher at Goldman Sachs International, and an Investment Manager for Cox Insurance Holdings/Lloyds of London. His most recent work included an overview of online financial services in 15 European countries, produced in cooperation with Proactive International.
Languages: English, German
ashley@vandusseldorp.com

Marta Iglesias, Researcher
Marta Iglesias holds a BA in Communication Science from the University of the Basque Country in Spain. She has recently completed a MA in European Communication Studies with a focus on public television at the University of Amsterdam. Previously, she has taken part of different exchange programmes in the University of Karlstad (Sweden) and New York University (USA).
Languages: English, Spanish, Dutch
marta@vandusseldorp.com

Marco Cuccu, Research Asssistant
Marco graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in International Economics from Hogeschool Limburg in Sittard, the Netherlands. At the moment he is studying Business Management and Economics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Languages: Dutch, Spanish, Italian, French, English and German.
marco@vandusseldorp.com


Europemedia

Sean Cornwell, Content Manager & Producer Europemedia.net
Sean Cornwell is the Editor of Europemedia.net, the European New Media website and newsletter which offer an overview of internet, telecoms and technology news from around Europe. An international team of expert editors, as well as the Van Dusseldorp research team, contribute to the website. Previously Sean was with the Financial Times of London. He has also worked as Director of European Sales for Pangea Sport, an American fashion company that worked with European Universities. Sean is bi-lingual in English and Italian and holds a degree in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge University.
Languages: English, Italian, German, French
sean@vandusseldorp.com


TV Meets the Web

Deborah Carter, Director of Business Development
Until recently, Deborah Carter worked for Times Company Digital, The New York Times' Internet division. Prior to this, she worked for America Online/Digital City South Florida where she specialised in building online communities of loyal customers using interactive features such as chat, message boards, instant messaging, and Web surveys. Ms. Carter's TV experience includes working as production coordinator at WETV, a global TV network based in Canada. Her Internet strategy training includes completion of the Newspaper Association of America's New Media Minority Fellowship (1998) and The Poynter Institute for Media Studies' Media Leadership Fellowship (1996). Ms. Carter is one of the judges for the Newspaper Association of America's Digital Edge Awards which recognize newspaper new media products that demonstrate originality, innovation, interactivity and depth of content.
Languages: English, French
deborah@vandusseldorp.com

Dessi Damianova, Newsletter Contributing Editor
Dessi Damianova recently completed an attachment at the BBC World Service in London, where she produced news programmes and features. Previously she worked as Political editor at THE SOFIA ECHO (a Sofia-based English language weekly), writing and editing domestic and regional news items and analysis, and as Foreign desk editor at STANDART (political and business daily). Ms Damianova holds a Master degree in Journalism and Mass Communication - Sofia University, and a degree in Arab Philology from Damascus University.
She is contributing editor for the TV Meets the Web Newsletter and Europemedia.net
Languages: Bulgarian, Russian, Arab, English, Macedonian.
dessi@vandusseldorp.com


Event Organization / Public Relations

Danielle Rossel, Project Manager
Danielle studied Translation and Interpreting in Maastricht and is a certified translator in both English and French. After her graduation, she continued her education at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, where she graduated in Lexicology, and chose Terminology and Translation as a major. In the final year at the university, Danielle worked as an intern at Berlitz GlobalNET in Amsterdam, where she helped set-up a terminology management system, to be used in the multi-lingual software localisation projects. After completing the internship, she stayed on at Berlitz to work as a Project Coordinator for almost two and a half years. During this period she spent a couple of months in Dublin, at Berlitz GlobalNET's European headquarters, where she worked as a Team Leader and contact person for Berlitz Amsterdam. After this, she worked as an Account Coordinator at an advertising agency in Hilversum, the Netherlands. In October 2000, Danielle joined Van Dusseldorp & Partners.
Languages: Dutch, English, French
danielle@vandusseldorp.com

Madeleine Grimhusen, Project Manager
Madeleine Grimhusen studied in Sweden, UK, France and Canada. She holds a BA degree in economics, specializing in marketing, as well as a post graduate degree in journalism. Until recently, Ms. Grimhusen worked as a TV producer at K-World in Stockholm. Her experience in the world of television includes reporting, producing and hosting programs in Sweden and in Canada.
Languages: Swedish, French, English, Norwegian
madeleine@vandusseldorp.com

Ana Henderson, Project Manager
Ana Henderson graduated from Victoria University (Wellington, NZ) in 1996 with a Bachelor's degree in Performance Violin. She has been living and working in London for the last two years - temping in various capacities - most recently at Andersen Consulting as an Information Research junior.
Languages: English
ana@vandusseldorp.com

Raluca Dumitrescu, Project Assistant
Raluca has a BA degree in International Business Administration from "OVIDIUS" University in Romania. Previously she worked as a market research operator for The Gallup Organization and was the human resources department coordinator for AIESEC Constanta, Romania (International Organization of Students in Economics and Management).
Languages: Romanian, English
raluca@vandusseldorp.com

Marinka van Cleef, Project Assistant
Marinka is studying at 'The Institute of Higher European Studies' in The Hague. She was on a four-month exchange programme in Finland. Her major is Communications.
Languages: Dutch, English, German
marinka@vandusseldorp.com

Daan Admiraal, Project Assistant
Daan is studying at 'The Institute of Media and Information Management' in Amsterdam. At the moment he is completing his internship at Van Dusseldorp & Partners. He is eager to learn as much as possible during the 10 weeks of practical training. His major is Marketing.
Languages: Dutch, English
daan@vandusseldorp.com


Office Management

Adrie Rustenburg, Library and Archives
Adrie Rustenburg is responsible for the library and research archives.

Jeroen Overre, Network Operator
Jeroen Overre is trained as an operator of computer and information systems.
Jeroen@vandusseldorp.com

Database maintenance
Van Dusseldorp & Partners maintains a database of European internet companies and contacts. This database is maintained by:

Priya Stocks
Priya Stocks has a background in administration and funder liason and has worked in England and India for ActionAid, Christian Aid (International Non-Governmental organisations), and the Royal National Institute for the Blind (British Non-Governmental Organisation). She has also worked more directly with the severely disabled and the visually impaired and is a trained yoga teacher.
priya@vandusseldorp.com