Allert van den Ham is currently a board  member of the Philips Foundation and the Philips  Foundation Impact Investments BV, member of the Commission on International Cooperation of the Netherlands Advisory Council for International Affairs, Advisor of the  International Network of Bamboo and Rattan, and  the Society for Chamber Music, The Hague. He was the Country Director of SNV Netherlands Development Organisation in Laos, Myanmar  and Bangladesh, and served as the Honorary  Consul of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Laos  between 2017 and 2021. From 2011 until 2018, he served as the CEO and Chair of the Global Managing Board of SNV, and as the Chairman  of SNV USA. He started his journey with SNV in 2010, as the Regional Director for Asia. Before joining SNV, he held various positions with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, consultancy firms, and the Dutch agency Oxfam Novib. From 2003-2010, he served as the Managing Director of the Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation (Hivos). Mr van den Ham has been Founder, Board member and  Advisor of several institutions, such as Social  Watch, The Netherlands Platform for Inclusive Finance, Triodos Sustainable Trade Fund, and the Dutch branch organisation Partos. His education includes an MSc in Human Geography from Nijmegen University, a PhD in Social Sciences from Wageningen University and further studies at INSEAD.