Meet MOPAN

Mr Steven Collet is Deputy Director General, Directorate-General for International Co-operation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. Steven is a change maker, with a passion for both international and organisational development. He has been working on economic development, trade and investment throughout his career, active in multilateral, bilateral and private sector arena’s. He served as a diplomat in Tanzania and Vietnam. He was Chief of Staff and Director for Sustainable Economic Development at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was Executive Board member of IDH, the Sustainable Trade Initiative, making the business case for sustainable global value chains. Steven studied Social Sciences in Brussels and Nijmegen. He is alumnus of THNK, the School for Creative Leadership.

Previously the Head of the Development Finance Architecture and Global Governance unit in the OECD’s Development Co-operation Directorate, she implemented new strategic orientations of the policy work on standard setting, benchmarking and analysis of the changing development finance landscape and built new partnerships, including with the UN, in the run-up to the 2015 Third International Conference on Financing for Development and the adoption of 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development. Prior to joining the OECD in 2007, Ms Steensen held several positions within the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ bilateral development co-operation branch (Danida) and with international consultancy firms COWI and NIRAS. Ms Steensen, a Danish and Togolese national, holds a Master’s Degree in Mathematical Economics from the University of Copenhagen (1998). Email contact:Suzanne.steensen@mopanonline.org