Huib Riethof

Current

Manager at E-Urban European City Advisers
Editor at Huibs EUROBLOGS
Editor at E-Urban vzw

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Past

Urban Regeneration Project Manager at Ministry of the Interior (Local Authorities, Immigration Policy), The Hague, The Netherlands
Member of City Council; Alderman at City of Amsterdam

Education

Universiteit van Amsterdam

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Huib Riethof’s Summary

Researcher, adviser and project designer for urban regeneration projects with a wide international experience, as well on government and local authority level, as in the fields of research, project design based on diagnostics, project monitoring and -evaluation.

Huib Riethof’s Specialties:

Urban renovation, job creation, professional training, cultural empowerment and conflict-management.

Huib Riethof’s Experience

Manager

E-Urban European City Advisers

(Research industry)

February 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)

Strategic Consulting, including project planning and design & evaluation and monitoring strategy development in urban (territorial and categorical) regeneration projects.
Editor

Huibs EUROBLOGS

(Research industry)

September 2005 — Present (3 years 11 months)

Disgusted by the rise of easy euroscepticism, I created "At Home in Europe", then "In Europa Thuis", "L'Europe Chez Soi" and, finally, "In Europa Zu Hause". The blogs favour a radically realistic appreciation of the ongoing European unification.
As of February 15, 2009, each of these blogs is hosted at http://athomeineurope.blogactiv.eu
at Euractiv daily European news.
Editor

E-Urban vzw

(Management Consulting industry)

April 2004 — Present (5 years 4 months)

E-Urban is an independent professional organization, that supports, links and organizes grassroots workers in difficult urban areas all over Europe. It is published in 4 languages: English, French, German and Dutch.
Urban Regeneration Project Manager

Ministry of the Interior (Local Authorities, Immigration Policy), The Hague, The Netherlands

(Government Agency; 11-50 employees; Government Administration industry)

April 1982 — June 1992 (10 years 3 months)

Generated new development strategy that focuses on empowering inhabitants of marginalised urban neighbourhoods to embark on a sustainable redevelopment course, including analysis of problems and opportunities (hidden skills) and development of diagnostic, self-evaluation and project-monitoring in 16 Dutch cities.
Member of City Council; Alderman

City of Amsterdam

(Government Agency; Government Administration industry)

September 1970 — March 1975 (4 years 7 months)

Elected to the Council in 1970, reelected in 1974 and nominated alderman responsible for personnel, arts and traffic/public transport. Co-authored a social approach to city renovation.

Huib Riethof’s Education

Universiteit van Amsterdam

Lic. , Social and Economic History of Modern Europe , 1959 — 1969

Researcher at International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, Amsterdam City Councillor and Alderman, Manager of Services Development Company in new town Bijlmermeer.

Activities and Societies:

Sociaal-Historische Studiekring