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Hans Nijhoff, MSc

Hans Nijhoff is Senior Project Consultant at MSM.

As private sector development expert he aims at contributing to real impact from investments and development programs in agriculture. His focus is on agribusiness growth, and his expertise is in the areas of: building value chain clusters & business ecosystems, creating agri-SME entrepreneurship & acceleration platforms, developing bankable investment plans for lead agri-companies, coordinating agri-partnerships between public, private and education partners, and conducting applied agri-research for strategic sector advise.

Besides agribusiness, at the start of his career, Hans worked as international advisor in the water & environmental domain, which helps him to better understand agriculture’s impact on scarce water resources and solutions for climate-smart agriculture. He has over 20 years’ experience in the above fields, specifically in East Africa but also in South-East Asia and the Middle East. He was posted in Tanzania from 2013-2016 and in Indonesia and Egypt before that.

He holds an MSc-degree in Agricultural Marketing Systems for Developing Countries, from Cranfield University in the UK.