Geopolitics & Strategy
Arend Jan Boekestijn
Arend-Jan Boekestijn is a much sought-after speaker at home and abroad who sheds light on the economic consequences of the current geopolitical shifts. He is fascinated by the major geopolitical shifts that are currently taking place and have a major impact on our politics and economy.
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Keynote Speaker,Moderator
Employability:
Keynote Speaker,Moderator,
About Arend Jan Boekestijn
Arend Jan Boekestijn was born in Amstelveen in The Netherlands. He has an MA in political science and history. From 1986-1989 he was research assistant European University Institute in Florence. From 1989 onwards he is assistant-professor history at Utrecht University. From 2006-2009 he was a member of Parliament for the VVD.
Boekestijn has published extensively on the history of the European States System and European Integration. He is also a successful podcast maker. Boekestijn and De Wijk has 100.000 daily listeners. Europa Draait Door 65.000 weekly listeners. In 2022 he was awarded the BNR Podcast Award. Boekestijn is a member of the Peace and Security Committtee of the Dutch Advisory Council for International Questions (AIV).
Arend-Jan is a much sought-after speaker and moderator at home and abroad who sheds light on the economic consequences of the current geopolitical shifts. He is fascinated by the major geopolitical shifts that are currently taking place and have a major impact on our politics and economy. Europe is in a number of crises that reinforce each other. Putin’s rise to power comes at a time when Europe is grappling with populism, the euro, Brexit and the refugee flows resulting from the implosion of the Middle East.
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Arend Jan Boekestijn about "Too Big To Fail"
Mike Ferrier, Managing Director/IUM Professor
"René Boender came to Monaco like Julius Caesar. Veni, Vidi, Vici. He came. He talked. He conquered. And all reactions were electric. Even Prince Albert’s!
René Boender was the key-note speaker at this year’s NGEF Conference organized annually by the University of Monaco. The NGEF invited famous entrepreneurs (Like Easy Jet Stelios, Philip Green etc) to encourage students from all over Europe to become entrepreneurs and learn from those who made it.
René was the opening thunderstorm that created the wave that allowed the media and us to claim this year's Forum as the best ever.
Students are used to listening to lectures and professors. They are hard to impress. René enthused, amused and bemused. The students and Monaco business angels had never seen anything like it.
At least 25% of the delegates e mailed him afterwards - a Forum record. René replied to them all and is actively helping at least six develop their ideas.
He sure knows how to work up a crowd and make it happen…."
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Thanks to his guidance before and during the conference as moderator, we have had a very successful congress.
"We experienced Arend Jan Boekestijn as a moderator with an astute, humorous and amiable personality. He was particularly involved in the preparations for our conference and showed maximum interest in the subject. Thanks to his guidance before and during the conference as moderator, we have had a very successful congress that was appreciated by our critical target group (of more than four hundred people) with an eight. We would like to invite him again for the next occasion."
The evaluations received a good score: the meeting is valued at an 8.
"I would like to thank you once again for your contribution to what we believe was a successful Prinsjesdag breakfast yesterday morning. The evaluations received a good score: the meeting is valued at an 8. We can all be very proud of that."