Country:
The Netherlands
Organisation:
Cycling Lab
Current position:
Director, Senior Expert
Specialization:
transport & development
About me:
Jaap Rijnsburger (1948) is an environment & development expert specialised in urban management in developing countries. In the Cycling Lab he develops active transport notions and very-low-carbon metropolitan mobility concepts. Educated as an MSc Architect Planner he started his career in 1975 as a development worker in Kenya and got involved with Appropriate Technology. In 1983 he established the NGO WASTE and co-created trend setting programs in developing countries on integrated and sustainable waste management (ISWM). From 1985 to 1995 he was President of the Dutch Cyclists Union “Fietsersbond”, got engaged in international cycling promotion and in 1996 he established I-CE Interface for Cycling Expertise for which he created partnerships and researches in Africa, Asia and Latin America. In 2003 he left as WASTE Director to fully focus on cycling and climate, as a social entrepreneur. The notions “cycling-inclusive”, “look at the Netherlands as cycling laboratory in stead of cycling paradise” and “Dutch cycling is of equal international importance as Dutch water management” are his. He conceived the hybrid bike-bus-bridge Amsterdam-Almere as well as the CAN Cycling Academic Network with its PhD program in developing countries. As I-CE Director he co-managed the DGIS funded programs LOCOMOTIVES (Low Cost Mobility Initiatives) and BPP (Bicycle Partnership Program) and stood at the cradle of the Coalition for Climate Justice. His current work is on carbon-validation methodologies for cycling, transport targets setting in terms of climate and sustainable development and climate-neutral technical assistance.
E-mail:
jaap.rijnsburger@cyclinglab.org
Address:
Raaigras 12, 2804 NC Gouda
Other information:
Co-founder of "Feet & Fiets" Global Foundation for Active Transport Development and Research
MENSA member
