Harm Edens
Harm Edens has worked in television and radio for almost 30 years. Dit Was Het Nieuws, 10xBeter, On Air, Gelderse Koppen and Het Vierdaagse Journaal are just a few of the shows he has enjoyed working on; he continues to work on some of them. Behind the scenes, he translated and wrote scripts, television shows, theatre productions, and adaptations for several comedy series such as Het Zonnetje in Huis, Sam Sam, In de Vlaamsche Pot and De Silvia Milecamshow. He also translated stage shows for John Kraaykamp, the Ro Theater, and Theater van het Oosten. Edens has also written jokes for Karin Bloemen and Marjolein Touw, and to this day writes columns for Linda magazine, Roots magazine, and the online edition of NVM magazine.  


Anthony van der Heijden
Anthony van der Heijden was the director of the Dutch ING Bank in Romania. 

Jan Karel van der Staay
Jan Karel van der Staay works as a counsel for KPMG. He worked for NUON, Rabobank group, and Philips, before taking on a position as general counsel/Chief Legal Officer at AkzoNobel. He holds several additional positions, such as chair of the Nederlandse Vereniging Toezichthouders Cultuur (the Dutch Association of Supervisors of Culture) and works with the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw and the EYE Film Institute Netherlands.
Hanneke Stegeman
Hanneke Stegeman works as a communications advisor and organizer of ‘green events’ in the Veluwe region. She studied Dutch language and literature in Groningen. Hanneke worked as a marketing and communications manager at KLM for ten years. She is socially involved in topics close to her heart such as nature and landscape, agriculture and food, energy, and the environment. With such a broad range of interests, she is involved in many projects including: contributing to groenegolflengte.nl and goudenlepelveluwe.nl; working with ‘natuureducatie Staatsbosbeheer Hoog-Buurlo’; working as a journalist for NieuweVeluwe and as a neighbourhood connector for onsoosterhuizen.nl; and co-founding deA (duurzame energie Apeldoorn). Lastly, she is a member of the board of LTO Zuidoost-Veluwe. Due to her association with the Lionsclub Appelthorn she is closely involved in the 'Elke dag kunst in het bos’ (everyday art in the forest) project, which brings children from Apeldoorn into contact with art from the Kröller-Müller Museum and the nature in the Veluwe. 

René Verhulst
René Verhulst is a Dutch administrator and politician of the CDA party. As of 8 September 2017, he is the mayor of the municipality of Ede. Verhulst studied law at the then Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht. After his studies, Verhulst became secretary to the board of the Stichting Sociale Woningbouw Utrecht. Subsequently, he worked for the Nederlands Christelijk Werkgeversverbond (NCW, the Dutch Catholic employers’ federation) in The Hague in the field of labour relations, economy, and the environment. From 1994 onwards, he served on the municipal council of Utrecht as a CDA politician. In 2001, he was appointed as chair of the executive committee of education, land, neighbourhood security, and regional affairs. In 2005, he resigned as chair of the executive committee and left the municipal council of Utrecht. Verhulst then took on the role of Director of Operations at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Amsterdam until 2010. René Verhulst was the mayor of Goes from 2010 until 2017.