ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Hester Duursema works as a consultant for RebelGroup Executives B.V.
RebelGroup is a financial, economic and strategy consultancy firm at the
interface of the public and private sector. Hester functions as process and
change manager amidst strategic start-up, turnaround or renewal endeavors.
She finds her challenge in helping public and private organizations to come to
a fruitful co-operation. As such, she advises Dutch organizations (public and
private) in the water sector how they can realize opportunities in the international water market.
Likewise, she contributed to the implementation of the OV (public transport) - chip card. As a process
facilitator of a competition-oriented dialogue, she was co-responsible for process and project
management in the establishment of an innovative Public-Private partnership for the municipality of
Rotterdam in terms of area development. From a more content perspective, she has also taken the lead
in a Mid-Term Review of the Access to Energy Fund of the Dutch Development Bank, FMO, and has
been part of the team that has developed alternative strategic options for the autonomous
administrative authority, CBR, the Dutch driving license organization. And last, she has co-developed
a strategic roadmap for a home care organization in the North of the Netherlands.
Next to her experience at RebelGroup, Hester Duursema has five years of experience as strategy
consultant at DWM Strategy Group, guiding management teams in formulating their strategy and
realizing strategic change programs. Besides this, she has co-designed and ±delivered large-scale in-
company leadership- and management development programs, especially in the private sector.
Hester studied International Economics at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and graduated summa
cum laude in 2006. She received her Bachelor of Science degree summa cum laude at the University
College Utrecht in 2004, majoring in neuroscience, medicine and chemistry, with a minor in
economics and psychology. In between, she studied anthropology for half a year at Cambridge
University, England.
Hester lived 9 years outside of her home country. Although born in the Netherlands, she spent her
childhood in South-East Asia, in Singapore and Indonesia respectively. For the last three years of
secondary school she attended the Lycée International in St-Germain-en-Laye in France.