Paul van der Laan
Freelance consultant
Paul van der Laan is an experienced manager with long term experience in Asia. He has been working
in Vietnam, Indonesia, Lao PDR, India and Azerbaijan for organisations that offer humanitarian and
development assistance. His longest experience is that of Country Representative of the Netherlands
Red Cross in Vietnam and Laos, where he worked over 6 years.
His professional goals are to organise and manage teams and projects efficiently and effectively in
order to ensure that high quality support is provided to vulnerable populations at the lowest possible
resource investment.
He is currently based in the Netherlands and working as a freelance consultant. He offers support in
writing winning grant proposals (3 out of 4 awarded in 2015), process/procedures enhancement and
interim management. Clients include the Netherlands Red Cross, Oxfam, Edukans and Netherlands
Leprosy Relief.
