ECLO :: Hertogenbosch Keynote

Conference Keynote Speakers

Vitality in Organisations - Fit Until the Finish

ECLO's 16th International Conference,Hertogenbosch, Netherlands on June 18/19, 2009

Coen Free

President, Koning Willem I College, The Netherlands

Coen Free is President of Koning Willem I College �s-Hertogenbosch (a town in the south of the Netherlands) since 1990; Koning Willem I College is considered as one of the most innovative Community Colleges in Europe. A special project of Koning Willem I College is School for the Future, a very innovative Research & Development Center for Teaching and Learning, e-Learning and Creative Thinking.

Coen Free is also President of the Dutch Consortium for Innovation, a sister organization of the American League for Innovation. He is member of the International Advisory Board of the Chair Academy, he is a founding member of the European Federation for Open and Distance Learning (EFODL) Brussels, and founding member of the Dutch De Bono Foundation.

He publishes frequently in journals and books his ideas about education in the 21st century. He has given guest lectures at numerous universities in Europe and is a well respected member of the community of �s-Hertogenbosch. Because of his merits to the city of �s-Hertogenbosch, he was elected Citizen of the Year 1999 and was also nominated as Citizen of the Century. In April 2006 he was knighted by the Queen of the Netherlands in the Order of the House of Oranje Nassau.

Anton Zijderveld

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Erasmus University Rotterdam

Anton C. Zijderveld, Malang (Indonesia), 1937. Emeritus professor of sociology at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He studied religion and sociology in Holland and America and has taught sociology at universities in New York, Montreal, Tilburg and Rotterdam. He is a visiting professor in Montreal, Osaka and Munich.

He has published 17 books in English and Dutch with translations into German, Japanese and Turkish, as well as many articles and essays. He is a bi-weekly columnist of Het Financieele Dagblad since 1990 about social, cultural and political issues.