Wageningen University and Research Admitted Student Profiles & Alumni

Louise Fresco

Scientist & writer, former President of WUR

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Addeke Hendrik Boerma

First Executive Director of WFP; FAO Director-General

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Marcel Dicke

Professor of entomology; Spinoza Prize laureate

PhD?

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Gerrit Braks

Dutch politician; Minister of Agriculture & Fisheries

BSc (Agriculture), MSc (Engineering)

1961, 1965

Willie Smits

Conservationist and primate advocate; long-time WUR alumnus

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Frank Westerman

Writer and journalist, studied tropical agricultural engineering

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Anne Vondeling

Dutch Labour Party politician and agronomist

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Henk Vredeling

Dutch politician and resistance fighter

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Jan Just Bos

Botanist, Olympic rower, and TV presenter

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Anne van den Ban

Scholar in agricultural extension

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Jan Mulder

Politician, former Member of European Parliament

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Ruud Kleinpaste

Nature presenter (“Dutch BUGMAN”)

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Cees Veerman

Former Minister of Agriculture for the Netherlands

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Simon Vroemen

Athlete turned entrepreneur

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Marijke Vos

Politician and environmentalist

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Addeke H. Boerma

FAO Director-General & WFP Executive Director

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Paul Struik

Agronomist and academic; recipient of international crop science awards

PhD (Agronomy)

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Isnawati Hidayah

First-gen student turned agri-food pioneer

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Kees Huizinga

Agricultural technologist turned entrepreneur in Ukraine

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Derk te Bokkel

CEO of Royal IHC, high-tech maritime systems company

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