Senior Advisor on PPP and Innovative Financing for the Netherlands Government
Currently, Jan van Schoonhoven is Senior Advisor on PPP and Innovative Financing for the Netherlands Government. His main role is to develop investment ready projects supported by the Netherlands government in economies in transition. He works for the Intergovernmental Water Centre in The Hague, a center supported by the Ministries of Infrastructure, Foreign and Economic affairs.
From 2012-2015 he was seconded to the United Nations in Genève as Executive Director of the International PPP Centre of Excellence of the United Nations. This center was established by the 56 member countries of UNECE to assist governments in developing a successful PPP pipeline by using best practices and implementing PPP standards. The center closely works with the Multilateral Banks (World Bank en ADB).
Based as a diplomat in Geneva, Jan van Schoonhoven also supported the discussions on the Sustainable Development Goals and the partnership with the private sector with a number of UN organization, like the UNCTAD, and WHO and furthermore at the WTO.
Before the UN, Jan van Schoonhoven was director of the Netherlands PPP Unit and transformed the PPP environment of the Netherlands form 2 projects (2006) to 20 projects and almost 20 Billion Euro’s in 2012. High-speed Rail, the second largest Locks in the World and the second Port of Rotterdam are international know projects.
Jan works for the World Bank on Procurement and PPP and supports the development on PPP of Ghana. He is independent director at the PPP Centre in Kazakhstan and member of the Infrastructure Think Tank of the G20. He also established a PPP center on Aruba, with already two projects with financial close.
Jan van Schoonhoven was born in 1963 and started his career as Officer in the Royal Netherlands Navy in 1982. He did a large number of tours around the world, including UN missions. In 1999 he joined the Ministry of Infrastructure and started as Director of the Coastal Defense and Anti Flooding organization. He lives in The Hague, is married and has three daughters.
Contact details
Jan.van.schoonhoven@rws.nl
+31 6 52596136
https://www.government.nl/topics/public-private-partnership-ppp-in-centralgovernment/
