What did Evert do?
Selection of Clients and employers
- City of Utrecht
- Zorggroep Almere, healthcare organisation
- Kanker.nl, cancer information
- The Hague University of Applied Sciences
- KWF Dutch Cancer Society
- ISRIC World Soil Information
- Jantje Beton, charity foundation for children
- City of Rotterdam
- ZonMW, health research funding
- National Institute for Public Health and the Environment / RIVM
- Municipal Health Service Rotterdam-Rijnmond
- Utrecht University
Recent productions
- Presentation Utrechtenaren, Queer Pechakucha Night, Villa Concordia, Utrecht, 2025
- Book Utrechtenaren, een queer geschiedenis. Maurice van Lieshout, Marijke Huisman and Evert van der Veen, WBOOKS 2024
- Exhibition Queer Utrecht Stories, Utrecht City Hall, 2024
- Website Queer U Stories, queer history of the city of Utrecht
- Podcast Iets van niets maken (Making something out of nothing), Kwartiermakersgilde (Trailblazers guild) epidose 3
Decoration
Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau, Chancellery of the Dutch Orders of Chivalry, 2021.
Work experience
- 2013> Trailblazer: independent entrepreneur with recent assignments for the municipality of Utrecht (development and implementation of two alliances in health care). Previous assignments for, among others, kanker.nl, Almere Healthcare Group, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, ISRIC World Soil Information and Jantje Beton.
- 2013: Project Manager Neighborhood Coach – Municipality of Rotterdam.
- 2011-2013: Deputy Programme Manager Rotterdam Lekker Fit!, Municipality of Rotterdam, (€ 9 mio/year, 140 employees)
- 2007-2011 Manager of the STD & Sexuality Department, GGD Rotterdam-Rijnmond € 8 mio/year, 36 employees)
- 1997-2007 Manager, ZonMw, The Hague, (€ 12 mio/year, 34 employees)
- 1992-1997: Project leader, Netherlands Institute for Care and Welfare / NIZW, Utrecht.
- 1988-1991: Lecturer/researcher, Utrecht University, Interfaculty Working Group on Gay Studies.
ExtraculicULAR
- 2020>: Member of the committee Tussen Spoor en Singel, Utrecht neighbourhood initiative
- 2019>: Project leader Queer U Stories, Utrecht’s queer history
- 2018>: Board secretary Jan Scheepstra Foundation
- 2015-2017: Chairman of COC Midden-Nederland, advocacy organization for LGBTIQA+
- 2006-2014: Chairman of the Utrecht LGBTI+ advisory committee (advises Mayor and Aldermen)
- 2009-2011: Member of the Sense management team, a national network for the promotion of sexual health, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment / RIVM.
- 2009-2010 Chairman of the ‘Open Registration’ committee, subsidy program for the Social Support Act in the municipality of Utrecht.
- 2003-2011: Chairman of the EuroGames Utrecht Foundation (European multi-sport event).
- 1996-1999: Chairman of the De Overkant (The Other Side) Foundation (organizer of the annual cultural festival).
Education
- 1981-1988 Human Geography, Utrecht University
- 1979-1981 Architecture, Eindhoven University of Technology
- 1973-1979 Pre-university secondary education (Atheneum B), Rijksscholengemeenschap Appingedam / Heijmans College Groningen
Member of:
Older productIons
- Website Utrechtse Alliantie Regenboog 50+ (Utrecht’s Rainbow Alliance 50+), LGBTQIA+-elderly people in the city of Utrecht
- Website Tussen Spoor en Singel (Between Railway and Canal), Utrecht neighbourhood initiative (2019)
- Book Roze Wolkennachten. Homodisco De Roze Wolk and homocafé De Wolkenkrabber Utrecht 1982-2006 (Pink Cloud Nights. Gay disco The Pink Cloud and gay café The Skyscraper). Adrianne Dercksen (2018) Utrecht: Evert van der Veen, kwartiermaker.
- Book Gezondheid in kleur, nieuwe inzichten uit het onderzoeksprogramma Cultuur en Gezondheid (Health in colour, new insights from the Culture and Health research programme). Maarten Evenblij, Johan Mackenbach and Evert van der Veen (2004) Amsterdam: Aksant
- Book Ik hoop dat het deze zomer mooi weer wordt. Mijn kind kreeg AIDS (I hope the weather will be nice this summer. My child got AIDS). Mia Duynstee, Henry Mostert & Evert van der Veen (1st edition 1999, 2nd edition 2000) Utrecht: NIZW
- Book Denken over zorg aan huis, als je er alleen voor staat (Thinking about home care when you are on your own). Nico de Boer, Margriet-Marie Govaart & Evert van der Veen (1st – 4th edition 1997-1998) Utrecht: NIZW
- Book Helpen bij rouw (Help with grief). Jan van den Bout & Evert van der Veen (eds.) (1st – 3rd edition 1997-1999) Utrecht: Elsevier / De Tijdstroom
- Book The Third Pink Book, A Global View of Lesbian and Gay Liberation and Oppression. Aart Hendriks, Rob Tielman & Evert van der Veen (eds.) (1993) Buffalo: Prometheus Books