Joost Oorthuizen is the Executive Director of IDH, The Sustainable Trade Initiative. IDH aims to deliver sustainable impact in commodity supply chains by co-investing with business front runners and civil society organizations to create mainstream market transformations. IDH works on 18 internationally-traded commodities and partners with over 300 companies in 50 countries. The organization was founded by front running companies in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, leading environmental and social NGO’s, the Dutch Ministry for Development Cooperation and is mandated and funded by European governments. Joost has built his career jointly in academia and business. He holds a PhD from Wageningen University in the governance of large-scale water systems and was assistant professor at Wageningen, and the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague. He also graduated with a Master of Change Management from SIOO. He has extensive business consultancy experience in Asia, Africa and the Netherlands, working for retail, SMEs, the creative industry and the public sector. He gained expertise in alliance-management of large-scale public-private companies, and providing leadership training to executives at TwynstraGudde. He has also facilitated alliances and large scale business projects in diverse agricultural supply chains at AgriProFocus.