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Ester Marjan Kruk
Counselor for Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Nature of the Netherlands,
MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES, FOOD SECURITY AND NATURE (LVVN)
Since the summer of 2026, Ester Kruk serves as agricultural counselor at the Netherlands Embassy in Jakarta, covering Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia. She graduated in anthropology/sociology of non-Western societies from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. After her studies, she spent 15 years in Asia working for various multilateral organisations, including the United Nations and the World Bank, as well as governmental and non-governmental organisations. In 2013 she returned to the Netherlands as Programme Manager Asia at CBI, later RVO.nl. Over the past decade she has been a strategic adviser at RVO on international trade, development cooperation and sustainability, amongst others in the agricultural sector.
Sessions
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Scaling agri-food tech innovation: Translating insights from the Dutch ecosystem to APAC27-Oct-2026Breakout Room B
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