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Our team Supervisory board Lecturers Volunteers

Maria Westerbos

Founder, Director, Board

Maria strategically paves the way for PSF and does so with humour. She founded the organisation in 2011 because she wants to make the world a bit more beautiful.

Jeroen Dagevos

Head of Programs

Jeroen focuses on tackling the negative effects of plastic pollution at its source. His ambition is to create a truly circular economy without leakage of plastics to the environment.

Annemarie Nederhoed

Head of Operations

Annemarie is on top of every aspect of our projects, ensuring PSF delivers the best for its mission. She is also responsible for fundraising.

Digital Content & Communication

Elles Tukker

Communications Manager

Elles believes in the power of language and hopes to make PSF an even stronger communicator in order to convince both industry, consumers and journalists of the need to fight the plastic tsunami.

Carina van Uffelen

Online communication & web coordination

Carina coordinates the data side of World Cleanup Day & Trash Hunters. She produces digital content and she’s one of the initiators of the P for Plastic movement!

Laura Diaz Sanchez

Campaigner Microplastics

Laura is responsible for the Ocean Clean Wash Campaign and manages all online content for it. She currently works on the new version of My Little Plastic Footprint app which helps reduce plastic in daily life.

Madhuri Prahbakar

Campaigner Beat the Microbead

Madhuri manages the Beat the Microbead campaign & is responsible for our international social media channels. She also co-created the Plastic Diet along with Laura to help reduce plastic consumption in daily life.

Lisette van Effrink

Campaigner Health

Lisette campaigns on the effects of plastic on human health and she organizes the world‘s first Plastic Health Summit. Being a passionate surfer & a proud mom she’s eager to protect the ocean and future generations from the harmful effects of plastics.

Robert Möhring

Campaigner Trash Hunters

Robert campaigns for World Cleanup Day, Trash Hunters & Clean Rivers (Schone Rivieren). His mission is to prevent single-use plastics ending up in the environment.

Enora Regnier

SEA/SEO Specialist (freelance)

Enora manages our Google advertisements, she takes care of our websites’ visibility & makes sure our online presence is growing. She aims for a zero waste lifestyle or at least, a zero plastic waste one!

Woltera Niemeijer

Grafisch designer (freelance)

Woltera has developed the corporate identity of the Plastic Soup Foundation and is responsible for the design of a large part of all communications.

JULIE ZAAT

Graduation student World Cleanup Day

For her graduation project, Julie will analyze how we can generate more participants for World Cleanup Day throughout social media.

Research

Harmen Spek

Manager Innovations & Solutions

Harmen focuses on solutions & innovations for all PSF projects and campaigns. He loves common-sense solutions in our plastic environment.

Michiel Roscam Abbing

Advocacy & Author

Michiel has been working for PSF since its foundation as a researcher. He is author of Plastic Soup Atlas of the World a book that has been published in a number of languages, including Japanese.

Hannah van de Kerkhof

Project leader Schone Rivieren

Hannah coordinates the Clean Rivers program. She focuses on tackling plastic pollution in our rivers at the source.

Sophie Vonk

Researcher Health

Sophie coordinates the Plastic Health Lab, in which consumer products are tested for chemical additives & microplastics.

Danae Kleida

Researcher

Danae conducts research around microplastics for the Beat the Microbead campaign. She writes informative articles around microplastics and she’s also responsible for digital content in various PSF pages.

Anna van der Vliet

Research & Development

Anna has a background in environmental law and anthropology and is doing research & development for Plastic Soup. She loves bouldering, learning, and the environment; she hates plastic pollution and late-stage capitalism.

Gijs Verwaijen

Master student Sociology

Gijs is going to investigate: what are the underlying motives for packaging related companies to opt for disposable plastics.

Education

Wendela van Asbeck

Manager Education

Wendela is responsible for all our educational programs & activities. Meanwhile, she’s always looking for fundraising opportunities and she tries to bring more people on board with a plastic-free lifestyle!

Janna Selier

Education Support

Janna facilitates donations and sponsorships of companies and individuals. She’s also responsible for our webshop and the administration of our educational kit.

Finance & Office management

Irene Vreeken

Financial Controller

Irene is taking care of all our financial activities and makes sure we run a tight ship. She’s one of our most active users of the Beat the Microbead app as she deeply cares about the issue of microplastics.

Martje Rozmus

Office manager

Martje coordinates the efforts of our guest teachers and our educational program. She is very caring and serves the team a plastic-free and vegetarian lunch every day. To do so, she cycles through half the city to have glass jars filled at the market.

Demi Kinsbergen

Intern Management Assistant

Demi is having her internship in office management and event coordination. She’s driven by wanting to make the environment healthy again.

Milan Driessen

Administration Intern

Milan is 15 years old & our youngest team member. He is a helping hand to us all but usually, he is learning about office administration and finance.

Honorary Chairman

Charles Moore

Honorary chairman

Charles Moore discovered the plastic soup in 1997 during a sailing race on the Pacific Ocean. From that moment on, he turned the wheel around and decided to deal with this environmental disaster. Charles is an inspiration to all of us and many people, including the Plastic Soup Foundation team, have since followed in his footsteps.

Jacqueline Cramer

Chair

Charles de Klerk

Secretary

Dieter Croese

Lid

Freek Stoové

Board member Legal Affairs

Expertise: Juridisch

Peter Keijzer

Yannick Overzee

Photographer

Yvonne Sjamaar

Translator