Hans Snijder

“Nothing is certain, not even that” (Idea 1 from the famous Dutch writer Multatuli)

The Dutch Heart Foundation is the second largest charity organization in the Netherlands, and that’s not without a reason. The Netherlands already has 1.7 million people with a cardiovascular disease. If nothing is done, this number will grow to at least 2.6 million within eight years. This may not happen. That’s why a new and above all ambitious assignment was formulated to put the urgency of cardiovascular disease on the map: the Netherlands must become more ‘heart healthy’. Pioneering research and prevention with an eye for the differences between people is core business.

Since February 2022, Hans Snijder is CEO of the Dutch Heart Foundation. He came in from the Princess Máxima Center for children’s oncology, where he was managing director media & fundraising. Snijder has a journalistic background, worked for several Dutch public broadcasting companies and was editor-in-chief of a regional newspaper. He has various board positions, was chairman of the supervisory board of AVROTROS.

How did I unlock my potential?

My potential can be described as ‘everlasting curiosity’, which I try to unlock every day again as a guilty pleasure by 1) investigating and asking questions, 2) reading and reading in between the lines and 3) ‘look to the left when everyone is looking to the right’ or vice versa.