Bart de Steenhuijsen Piters

Head of Sustainable Economic Development Director of KIT Development Policy & Practice a.i.
KIT Development Policy & Practice
Sustainable Economic Development
Phone: +31 (0)20568 8285
E-mail: b.d.steenhuijsen.piters@kit.nl


Bart de Steenhuijsen Piters, Ph.D., is an expert in the field of institutional development, innovation dynamics and sustainable business development. He has expertise in private and public sector reforms and policy development; stakeholder participation; demand-driven research; public-private partnerships and the design of sustainable production and consumption chains.

He has over twenty one years of experience, gained through long-term positions in Mali, Cameroon and Tanzania and numerous short-term assignments in Africa and Asia.

In his current function, Dr de Steenhuijsen Piters is leading KIT’s innovation programmes on local governance and natural resource management, rural service and innovation systems and sustainable markets and value chains. He was one of the initiators of the private Annona Sustainable Investment Fund.

Dr de Steenhuijsen Piters joined KIT in 1995. He is KIT’s Area leader for Sustainable Economic Development.