{"id":2590,"date":"2025-10-07T11:31:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.keyregionleiden.nl\/new-members-appointed-to-foundation-board\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T12:37:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:37:38","slug":"new-members-appointed-to-foundation-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keyregionleiden.nl\/en\/new-members-appointed-to-foundation-board\/","title":{"rendered":"New members appointed to Foundation Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Key Region Leiden Foundation Board, in addition to the incumbent chairman, has been joined by two new members. The board now consists of three members coming from the fields of government, education and entrepreneurs. They are the following directors:  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chairman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keyregionleiden.nl\/en\/Partners\/municipality-of-leiden\/\">Wietske Veltman<\/a>, alderman for the economy of Leiden municipality (center in photo);<\/li>\n<li>Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keyregionleiden.nl\/en\/Partners\/entrepreneurial-leiden\/\">Willem Jan Zirkzee<\/a>, chairman Entrepreneurship Leiden (pictured left);<\/li>\n<li>Treasurer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keyregionleiden.nl\/en\/Partners\/university-of-leiden\/\">Joeri van den Steenhoven<\/a>, a member of the Executive Board of Leiden University of Applied Sciences (pictured right).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For now, representation from the knowledge clusters is through our director Leonie Hussaarts.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8216;Together we are committed to strengthening the innovative power of our region. We are intensifying cooperation with the province, state and Europe and ensuring a stronger connection between innovative clusters and the local economy.&#8217; <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We sincerely thank our former board members Martijn van Pelt (VNO-NCW Rijnland) and Otto Jelsma (mboRijnland) for their years of commitment to our agenda.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2462 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.keyregionleiden.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Key-Region-Leiden-070725-LR-33-480x319.jpg\" alt=\"Martijn van Pelt\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.keyregionleiden.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Key-Region-Leiden-070725-LR-33-480x319.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.keyregionleiden.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Key-Region-Leiden-070725-LR-33-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.keyregionleiden.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Key-Region-Leiden-070725-LR-33-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.keyregionleiden.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Key-Region-Leiden-070725-LR-33.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2464 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.keyregionleiden.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Key-Region-Leiden-070725-LR-41-480x319.jpg\" alt=\"Frans M\u00f6hring\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.keyregionleiden.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Key-Region-Leiden-070725-LR-41-480x319.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.keyregionleiden.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Key-Region-Leiden-070725-LR-41-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.keyregionleiden.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Key-Region-Leiden-070725-LR-41-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.keyregionleiden.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Key-Region-Leiden-070725-LR-41.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The photo below shows a large part of Key Region Leiden Steering Committee. Check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keyregionleiden.nl\/en\/partners\/\">partner page<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1978 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.keyregionleiden.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Stuurgroep-Key-Region-1536x893-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"893\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.keyregionleiden.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Stuurgroep-Key-Region-1536x893-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.keyregionleiden.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Stuurgroep-Key-Region-1536x893-1-480x279.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.keyregionleiden.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Stuurgroep-Key-Region-1536x893-1-1024x595.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.keyregionleiden.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Stuurgroep-Key-Region-1536x893-1-768x447.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Key Region Leiden Foundation Board, in addition to the incumbent chairman, has been joined by two new members. 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