About me

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Krijn Poppe (1955) groeide op op een akkerbouwbedrijf in Flevoland en studeerde bedrijfseconomie in Amsterdam en Rotterdam. In 1981 ging hij aan de slag bij het Landbouw Economisch Instituut, de voorloper van het huidige Wageningen Economic Research. Hij werd al snel verantwoordelijk voor rapportages over inkomensontwikkeling en effecten van beleid. Hij vertegenwoordigde jarenlang Nederland in het Europese Bedrijven-Informatienet (FADN) waarin de EU gegevens van 80.000 bedrijven laat verzamelen. In zijn eigen onderzoek richtte hij zich vooral op de bestuurlijke informatiekunde, zoals de standaardisatie in agrarische accountancy, milieuverslaggeving, de introductie van het Mineralen Aangifte Systeem MINAS en platformen voor data-uitwisseling. Als lid van het management van het LEI en WEcR droeg hij bij aan de vernieuwing van het instituut waarbij nieuwe terreinen rond consumentenonderzoek, ketenonderzoek en ict werden ontgonnen. Ook internationaliseerde het instituut afgelopen 40 jaar sterk. Poppe leidde zelf vele Europese onderzoeksprojecten, o.a. over de concurrentiepositie van de Europese voedselindustrie, de rol van coöperaties in de 27 EU landen en het ontwerp van een platform voor onderzoek naar voeding, leefstijl en gezondheid. Hij was lange tijd secretaris-generaal van de Europese Associatie van Agrarische Economen en is nu secretaris van de stichting die de wetenschappelijke bladen van de beroepsvereniging uitgeeft.

Afgelopen jaren concentreerde hij zich als boegbeeld van het instituut op beleidsadvisering en was enige tijd bij het Ministerie van LNV gedetacheerd als Chief Science Officer. Hij droeg in Brussel bij aan meer aandacht voor het Agrarisch Kennis- en Innovatiesysteem en bepleitte uitbreiding van het landbouwbeleid tot voedselbeleid, zodat ook andere partijen in de keten op hun prestaties worden aangesproken. Binnen Wageningen UR leidde hij multidisciplinaire onderzoeksprogramma’s over transities en over veerkracht. Krijn Poppe is een veelgevraagd spreker voor divers publiek en een actief gebruiker van sociale media voor communicatie van onderzoeksresultaten en economische inzichten.

Krijn J. Poppe is a business economist and worked for nearly 40 years as research manager at Wageningen Economic Research (formerly the Agricultural Economics Research Institute LEI) of Wageningen University and Research, located in The Hague, the Netherlands. He is also a member of the Council for the Environment and Infrastructure (RLI). 

For Wageningen UR he was involved in the management of several large, multidisciplinary research projects for the EU. Examples are Support of Farmers' Cooperatives (for DG Agri, 2011-12), SmartAgriFood (FP7 Future Internet PPP 2011-2013), FIspace (FI-PPP 2013 -2015), EuroDISH (FP7 2012-2015), FLINT (2014-2018) and the SCAR Collaborative Working Group AKIS (2010 - 2015).

From 2009 – 2011 he worked part-time as Chief Science Officer for Agro-Chains and Fisheries at the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation. This was an advisory role on the use of science in policy making and on identifying future research needs of the Ministry.

Krijn J. Poppe is Honorary Secretary-Treasurer of the EAAEP Foundation that publishes the European Review of Agricultural Economics. He was for 12 years (1999-2011) Secretary-General of the European Association of Agricultural Economists. He is a Fellow of the EAAE. He chairs the Steering Group of the journal EuroChoices and chairs the foundation eRNAC on research concerning cooperatives.  
Krijn J. Poppe is a member of the Province of South-Holland's Advisory Committee on the Quality of the Living' Environment. He has been a non-executive director of the Dutch cooperative Nautilus (active in organic vegetables), and is a member of the board of the Foundation SKAL (that certifies organic businesses) Until may 2017 he co-owned a small arable family farm in Flevoland. and since 2019 an arable farm in Zeeland.

DETAILS FROM KRIJN's CV

Work experience
Dates	June 2013 - 1.7.2020 (since 1.8.2016 4 days per week)
Occupation or position held	Research manager
Main activities and responsibilities	Scientific management: Helping (potential) clients to translate their issues into research questions (business development) and coaching senior researchers in large (EU) research projects. Special attention to projects in ICT,  big data research infrastructures, CAP and Food Policy. Coordinating a research program on Resilience within Wageningen UR.
Name and address of employer	Wageningen University and Research Wageningen Economic Research (formerly known as LEI) P.O. Box 29703 2502 LS The Hagues The Netherlands
Type of business or sector Dates Position	Research Institute July 1, 2016 - current Member of the Council for the Environment and Infrastructure (RLI)
Main activity Name and address of employer	The Council for the Environment and Infrastructure (Rli) is the primary strategic advisory board for the Dutch government and parliament in matters relating to the physical environment and infrastructure. The Council operates independently and provides solicited and unsolicited advice on policy affecting the sustainable development of the human environment. The policy domains in which it is active are therefore those of the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment (I&M), the Ministry of Economic Affairs (EZ), and the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK). Through its integrated approach and strategic advice, the Council strives to provide greater depth and breadth to the political and social debate, and to improve the quality of decision-making processes RLI (Raad voor de Leefomgeving en Infrastructuur) The Hague The Netherlands
Dates Occupation or position held Main activities and responsibilities Name and address of employer Type of business or sector	January 2010 - June 2013 Head of department Data Line management with performance responsibility in data management of the LEI and support of the six research departments in scientific data handling; Management of large European multidisciplinary projects. Wageningen University and Research Center Agricultural Economics Research Institute (LEI) P.O. Box 29703 2502 LS The Hague The Netherlands Research Institute In the period June 2009 – December 2011 Krijn J. Poppe was on temporary leave for three days a week to act as Chief Science Officer at the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (during that period merged into the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation). This was an experimental advisory role on the use of science in policy making, including quality management, and on identifying future research needs
Dates	June 2000 – December 2009 (since June 2009: acting, 2 days per week)
Occupation or position held	Head of department Animal Production Systems
Main activities and responsibilities	Line management with performance responsibility (turnover € 12.5 million per year), project- and program management, with emphasis on new types of policy reports and on integration of themes. The department had about 100 persons, of which 30 in data collection and 70 in research. In addition to that program manager for a program on research methods in Transition, institutions, governance and policy (€ 1.5 mln / year)
Name and address of employer	Wageningen University and Research Center Agricultural Economics Research Institute (LEI) P.O. Box 29703 2502 LS The Hague The Netherlands
Type of business or sector	Research Institute
Education and training
Dates	1977-1981
Title of qualification awarded	Graduated (M.A.)
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered	Business economics
Name and type of organisation providing education and training	Erasmus University Rotterdam
Level in national or international classification	Master in Science / Business Administration
Dates	1973-1976
Title of qualification awarded	Graduated (B.A.)
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered	Business administration
Name and type of organisation providing education and training	Higher Economics School, Amsterdam
Level in national or international classification	B.A.
	Management Development training Wageningen UR; 2003, 2005
	Management-training, internal training Ministry of Agriculture; 1987
	Management information systems, Erasmus University Rotterdam; 1985-1986
Other language(s)
Self-assessment		Understanding				Speaking				Writing
European level (*)		Listening		Reading		Spoken interaction		Spoken production
Dutch (mothertongue)			5		5		5		5		5
German			5		5		4		4		3
English			5		5		5		5		5
French			4		4		2		3		2
Social skills and competences	Organiser, analytical and creative personality. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator: ENTJ - Extraverted Thinking with Intuition (ENTJs are logical, organized, structured, objective and decisive about what they view as conceptually valid. They enjoy working with others, especially when they can take charge and add a strategic plan). Ned Hermann Brain Dominance Instrument: 1121 - Organiser, administrative, analytical, conceptual, integrative - under stress with more emphasis on creativeness and less on organisation.
Organisational skills and competences	has a large network over Europe
Technical skills and competences	Specialist in business economics with emphasis on management accounting and ICT; Krijn Poppe managed EU Research projects on the competitive position of European Food Industry (DG Enterprise) and Support for Farmers’ Cooperatives (for DG Agri). Managed a SCAR strategic working group on Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (and editing the first three reports). Involved in large FP7 Future Internet projects Smart AgriFood and FIspace. Co-leading the project EuroDISH on infrastructures for food – health research, leading to a proposal for DISH-RI and the RICHFIELDS project. Specialist in organisation and data management of European Farm Accountancy Data Networks and leading the FP7 project FLINT to renew indicators;
Other skills and competences	Consultancy experience on topics mentioned above, with emphasis on strategic information management in agricultural accountancy, competitiveness of the food industry and on policy research. In the Netherlands as well as in other European countries.
Driving licence	Car
Additional information	Honorary Secretary-Treasurer of the board of the Foundation of the European Review of Agricultural Economics (2013 – up to now; member 2012-2013) Chairman Steering Group EuroChoices (periodical, 2002 – up to now) Chair Foundation eRNAC (European Research Network for Agricultural Cooperatives): www.ernac.org (2007 – up to now) Member of the Province of South-Holland's Advisory Committee on the Quality of the Living' Environment. Chair of the FIspace Foundation (2015 - current) Member of the Board of SKAL, the Dutch organic inspection authority. Member of the international advisory group of AgEcon Search, a repository for working papers in agricultural economics (2006 – up to now) Member of the Board of the Wageningen School of Social Sciences (WASS) 2010 - 2014 Member International Advisory Board International European Forum on Innovation and System Dynamics in Food Networks, 2007 - up to now, Innsbruck. Member of the scientific committee of the SFER Colloque International ‘Diversité et durabilité des modèles cooperatives dans une context de crises de la mondialisation’, Paris, November 2012 Member of the program committee of the EAAE Seminar “Innovation for agricultural competitiveness and sustainability of rural areas”, Prague, September, 2012 Member of the program committee of the international conference “Cooperative Responses to Global Challenges”, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, March, 2012 Secretary-General European Association of Agricultural Economists EAAE (1999 – 2011): www.eaae.org Member of the Board of supervisory / non-executive directors Cooperative Nautilus (organic vegetables), Lelystad (2000 – 2007, chair in 2007) Acting head of the LEI Wageningen UR department’s unit Fisheries Research (2005 – 1.6.2007) Organised PACIOLI-network on innovation in micro economic data sets (www.pacioli.org) until 2007 and involved in the UN Wye city group on rural household and income data Member Programme Committee 99th EAAE seminar "Trust and Risk in Business Networks", Bonn, 2006. Member Programme Committee 94th EAAE seminar "From households to firms with independent legal status: the spectrum of institutional units in the development of European agriculture", Wye College, 2005. Chair organising committee 84th EAAE Seminar 'Food Safety in a dynamic world', Netherlands, 2004 Member Programme Committee 82nd EAAE seminar "Quality Assurance, Risk Management and Environmental Control in Agriculture and Food Supply Networks", Bonn, 2003 Member Programme Committee 56th EAAE seminar "Long term prospects of the beef industry", Paris, 1998 Member of the international evaluation group of the MTTL, Helsinki (1999) Liaison officer for the Netherlands of the European Association of Agricultural Economists EAAE (1989-1995). Board member of the Dutch Society for Agricultural Economists (1989 - 1995) Member of a consulting group of the Christian Higher Agricultural School (1987-1995) Chairman Hobby Computer Club Group on investment software (1994-2000) and writer of software evaluations for the journal Technisch Kwantitatieve Analyse (Reed Elsevier, 2002 – 2004) Professional columns in the magazine Syscope, on www.boerenbusiness.nl and the website of LEI Wageningen UR.