Professional Experience
Evert has a broad background in health, research, and policy, covering topics such as diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI), care and welfare, volunteer work, sexuality/STIs, and palliative care and bereavement. He has chaired municipal advisory committees, cultural festivals, international sports tournaments, and advocacy organisations.
Education
After completing an MSc in Human Geography, Evert pursued targeted professional courses to develop practical skills in presenting, writing, teaching, managing knowledge-intensive organisations, and programme and project management.
Clients and employers
City of Utrecht | City of Rotterdam | Municipal Health Service Rotterdam-Rijnmond | The Hague University of Applied Sciences | ISRIC World Soil information | Jantje Beton, charity foundation for children | Kanker.nl foundation, cancer information | KWF Dutch Cancer Society | National Institute for Public Health and the Environment / RIVM | Utrecht University | ZonMw, health research funding | Almere Health Group
Recent productions
- Podcast: Story of Utrecht - Guest editor-in-chief Evert van der Veen on the queer history of Utrecht, 2025
- Book: Utrechtenaren, een queer geschiedenis (Utrechtenaren, a queer history). Maurice van Lieshout, Marijke Huisman & Evert van der Veen, WBOOKS 2024
- Exhibition: Queer Utrecht Stories, Utrecht City Hall, Utrecht Provincial Office and the museum of working-class neighbourhoods, 2024-2025
- TV programme: A Walk through the Rainbow History of Utrecht, Route C, RTV Utrecht, 2024
- Podcast: Making something out of nothing, Trailblazers guild, Epidose 3, 2023
- Website: Queer U Stories, queer history of the city of Utrecht
Honours
Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau, Chancellery of the Dutch Orders of Chivalry, 2021
Key Roles & Positions
- Trailblazer (since 2013) - Independent entrepreneur, recent assignments for the City of Utrecht: development and implementation of alliances
- Project Manager (2013) – Project Neighbourhood Coach, City of Rotterdam
- Deputy Programme Manager (2011-2013) – Lekker Fit 010 (Healthy Kids Rotterdam), City of Rotterdam, (€ 9 mio/year, 140 employees)
- Manager (2007–2011) – STD & Sexuality Department, Municipal Health Service Rotterdam-Rijnmond (€8m/year, 36 employees)
- Manager (1997–2007) – ZonMw, Health Research Funding, The Hague (€12m/year, 34 employees)
- Project Manager (1992–1997) – Netherlands Institute for Care and Welfare / NIZW, Utrecht
- Lecturer/researcher (1988–1991) – Utrecht University, Interfaculty Working Group on Gay Studies
Extracurricular & Advisory Roles
- Coordinator Queer U Stories (QUS), Utrecht LGBTQIA+ history (2019-present)
- Board secretary Jan Scheepstra Foundation, (2019-present)
- Committee Member, Tussen Spoor en Singel, Utrecht (2020–2025)
- Chairman COC Midden-Nederland, LGBTQIA+ advocacy (2015–2017)
- Chairman, Utrecht LGBTQIA+ Advisory Committee (2006–2014)
- Steering Committee Member Sense, national network for of sexual health of the youth, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment / RIVM (2009-2011)
- Various other national and local leadership roles in the world of culture, sports and advocacy
Education
- MSc in Human Geography, Utrecht University (1981-1988)
- Architecture, Eindhoven University of Technology (1979–1981, First-year certificate)
- Pre-university secondary education (Atheneum B), Rijksscholengemeenschap Appingedam / Heijmans College Groningen, 1973-1979
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), history of a Utrecht neighbourhood
- 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 (1e druk 1999, 2e druk 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 and Evert van der Veen (1e – 4e 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