Jan Willem de Vries appointed as Officer

Jan Willem has made significant contributions to the so-called Golden Triangle in the last four decades. The Golden Triangle is the collaboration between research, administration and the business sector. After a job in the business sector, he took a position in the former experimental centre for floriculture in Aalsmeer in November 1982. This is one of the predecessors to the current Greenhouse Horticulture and Flower Bulbs business unit of Wageningen University & Research. In his position as head of the entire experimental business, he managed the facilities with excellence and deployed his team to the maximum of its ability to support research in frequently complex projects.

He also devoted himself to making the new location in Bleiswijk sustainable, for example, by working with entrepreneurs in the horticultural sector in the new polder in realising the "Waterbedrijf Overbuurtsche Polder" and, following that, then project "AquaReUse", aimed at joint purification of the region's wastewater. His intensive participation in the network and his weekly columns made him a well-known ambassador of the sector and of Wageningen University & Research as a whole.

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