Maarten van Beek

Maarten van Beek (33) is HR Director for Unilever Foodsolutions Latin America, based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He holds a Master of Arts in Organisational Psychology from Leiden University and a Master of Science in Human Resource Development from Twente University. He is working on his PhD in Leadership Development.

Maarten's interests mainly focus around leadership development questions and cultural differences. Within Unilever (www.unilever.com) he held different position as HR manager of two factories, Head of Recruitment, and Project Manager at the Global Expertise Team Talent Management. Maarten is a member of the Board of the Leiden University Funds (www.luf.nl), and responsible for Alumni of Leiden University; next to that he is on the Board of a young Theater group called Annette Speelt (www.annettespeelt.nl).

Maarten lives in Jardims in Sao Paulo (Brazil) and in an old library in The Haque (Netherlands) and was born in the South of the Netherlands in Geleen. Next to reading, traveling, and collecting contemporary art, he enjoys good meals and excellent wines and whiskeys.

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