Stephanie is a multilingual Desk Researcher, Knowledge Management (KM), Digitalisation, Policy Expert and ICT Expert with seventeen years of professional experience. She has managed complex projects and conducted research and wrote foreign policy reports with a focus on EU-Sub-Saharan Africa / Latin America international cooperation.

Since 2010 she manages a team that develops and tests bookkeeping/administration software for Dutch and Flemish entrepreneurs.

She holds two Master Diplomas in international cooperation and a first-year diploma in Physics. Additionally, she holds certificates in renewable energy, software development and software testing. 

Previous clients include the European Commission, the US Embassy, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, several NGOs, universities, entrepreneurs and consultancy agencies.

She believes in continuous learning and is currently improving her macro-economic, marketing and artificial intelligence skills. She is also improving her software coding skills in four computer languages: PHP, HTML, CSS and Swift.

Offered services include formulating, implementing and reporting on digital strategies in international development cooperation. Other services include translation, project formulation, implementation, evaluation, data management, facilitation of multi-stakeholder platforms, e-governance, trainings, workshops, data analysis.

•        Main working languages are English, Dutch, French and Spanish.

•        Thematically, she has focused on education, food security, climate change, ICT, digitalisation in international cooperation, sustainable energy, natural resource management, entrepreneurship, religion, spirituality and gender.

•        She has conducted multilingual desk and internet research and evidence-based research for US and Dutch governments. Research was conducted on results achieved, lessons learned and best practices of international development programmes for several NGOs.

•        Research methods applied; interviews, literature review, surveys, mappings, FGDs.

•        She has a passion for sustainable development, knowledge management, digitalisation and the learning organization. She is experienced in the implementation of a range of KM phases and digital strategies, from strategy planning and reporting to testing and implementation. She played a role of 'spider in the web' and 'train the trainers', connecting users through social media platforms (e.g. wikis, Communities of Practice), coordinating networks, facilitation, and stimulating south-south cooperation; she worked on teambuilding and capacity building projects and has given trainings in most of her projects. She prepared, coordinated, reported, contributed to policy development in foreign public policy. Women's empowerment, leading through example, female business ownership, also ICT and finance, usually male dominated business sectors.  

•        She has strong ICT, data management, budgeting, accountancy skills and easily adapts to new technologies. She manages a team of software developers since 2019, she is a rare female fintech business owner and sells self-developed bookkeeping software.