Han Bekke (1949) has been Director of MODINT, the Dutch national organisation of manufacturers, wholesalers, agents and importers for fashion, interiors, carpets and textiles since 2000. Prior to that, between 1992 and 2000, he was Director of Fenecon, one of Modint’s predecessors, after having been in charge of economic affairs at the same organisation since 1986, and staff member since 1984. Between 1971 and 1984 Bekke worked at the economic department of Nevec.
Bekke studied Technical Economics at the University for Applied Sciences in Enschede. Throughout his career Bekke been a member of countless (advisory) committees, boards and juries including ECLA, IAF, VCI, AMFI, the Netherlands Fashion Institute and the Fashion Prize ‘Grand Seigneur’.
Ole Bouman (1960) has been Director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) since 2007. Prior to that he was editor-in-chief of the periodical Volume. Recently he has curated a series of events around the reconstruction of the public domain in cities hit by disasters, such as Ramallah, Mexico City, Beirut and Prishtina. He has also curated exhibitions for the Milan Triennale, Manifesta 3 and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Among his publications are The Invisible in Architecture (1994) and Al Manakh (2007), RealSpace in QuickTimes (1996) and De Strijd om Tijd [The Battle for Time] (2003). His essays have appeared in a wide variety of magazines and broadsheets including The Independent, Artforum, Domus, Harvard Design Review, and El Croquis. Bouman is a Lecturer in Design at MIT, Cambridge, MA, and a regular guest lecturer at other universities and cultural institutions.
Christine van Gemert (1960)
is the founding director of Van Gemert Interior Architects (founded in 1996), a company that focuses on interior design for retail, bars and restaurants, offices, day nurseries, prisons, housing, public spaces, furniture design, etc. She founded her own company after having finished her training at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, where she specialised in interior design, small-scale architecture, furniture design and the design of public space. She is also a member of various boards, including chair of the Association of Dutch Interior Architects (BNI) (since 2009) and board member of the Foundation Architects’ Office Register (SBA) (since 2008), which monitors who practices architecture, landscape architecture, urban design and interior design in the Netherlands. She also gives lectures on interior architecture as well in the Netherlands as abroad and stimulates studies on interior architecture regarding the new master education in spatial design.
Rob Huisman (1948) is Director of the Association of Dutch Designers (BNO). He originally studied Sociology of Arts, and started his career at the Centre for Contemporary Art De Appel, and subsequently the Arts Council of the Province Zuid-Holland. At the Arts Council he worked as policymaker for Sculptural Art, Design and New Media, where he became acquainted with Dutch design. Fascinated by the design industry he started working for the GVN (the Association of Dutch Graphic Designers), a predecessor of the BNO.
Throughout his career Huisman has been a board member with various organisations, including Time Based Arts, the Foundation of Collective Rights for Illustrators and Designers (SCRIO), the Centre for Design Eindhoven, the Dutch Design Awards and the Association of Best Dutch Book Designs. 
Dingeman Kuilman (1961) is Director of Premsela, Dutch Platform for Design and Fashion. In recent years he has been involved with the launch of Morf, the Netherlands’ biggest design magazine, the street-fashion festival Streetlab, the internal design portal design.nl and Platform 21, a public design laboratory.
After his studies in graphic design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Kuilman worked with Anthon Beeke and was subsequently one of the founders of Caulfield & Tensing. In 1994 he became worldwide head of visual communication for Philips Design. Four years later he joined FHV/BBD as a brand and marketing strategy consultant.
Among his publications are De schuld van het schildembleem [The crest emblem’s guilt] (1991), a biography of the Philips logo. Among a variety of other board and committee memberships, he has been a member of the Raad voor Cultuur (the Dutch Arts Council).
