Katja Berkhout

As Area Director and head of the Boston office, Katja Berkhout is responsible for covering five states in the New England region and eastern Canada.

Ms. Berkhout has spent the last three years with the Netherlands Foreign Trade Agency (NL Agency) as international project and financing advisor to the Netherlands private sector. Prior to that, she was Business Consultant at Berenschot, an independent organisational consulting firm with 500 employees in the Benelux. In this position she was responsible for subsidy and project management advice to large private clients and grants scheme management trainings for international Graduates.

Earlier in her career, Katja Berkhout worked as an international project manager in Central and Eastern Europe and acquisition coordinator for VNG-International (Netherlands Association of Municipalities) in, among other places, Romania, the Russian Federation and Bulgaria.

She earned a master's degree in Contemporary History from Groningen University with a specialty in law and international co-operation.

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