CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal data
Name
Address
Wim A. Monasso LLM
Waterlandsingel 112
2548 ST The Hague
Contact information
Tel.: (31) (0)70 - 3 106 586
GSM.: (31) (0)6 - 2422 5244
e-mail: wim.monasso@filad.nl
Nationality
Dutch
Date / place of birth
12 October 1951, Doetinchem, The Netherlands
Professional experience
April 2004 - to date
Consultant for FILAD in philanthropy and development co-operation
serving grant-making foundations, NGO’s, governments
April 1991 – April 2004
Programme Specialist Asia / Pacific & North Africa Region, at Bernard
van Leer Foundation, The Hague, on ‘Early Childhood’:
policy development and implementation,
negotiating projects with governments and other parties,
maintaining contact with c0-funders, governments, the EU,
monitoring and advising project partners
January 1980 – March 1991
Programme Officer Middle East region at Oxfam Novib, The Hague
Assessing project proposals, monitoring projects, fund-raising ( EU),
international advocacy work.
Secretary of international NGO consortium Relief Aid for Cambodia
July 1977 – December 1979
Secretary to NOVIB Management Team
Missions
Missions executed for NOVIB, Dutch Foreign Office, and the Bernard van Leer Foundation respectively, between 1980 and
2004 in : Australia, Cambodia, China/Hong Kong, Cyprus, Egypt, India, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco,
New Zealand, Pakistan, Palestine, Sri Lanka, Thailand, U.K., U.S.A., Vietnam, UN-HQ in Geneva, New York.
(Higher) Education
(Feb. 2005)
(Aug.) 2004
1970 – 1976
Faculty of Social Sciences, Free University, Amsterdam:
Post-academic course Philanthropic Studies: Module “Governance, Policy and
Evaluation” (certified)
Faculty of Social Sciences, Free University, Amsterdam:
international Summer Academy on Philanthropy: “Good Governance in Foundations”
Faculty of Law, Catholic University, Nijmegen :
International Public Law
Peoples’ Customary Law in Non-Western Societies
Publications and articles ( law, politics and aid policies, education )
Law:
Ars Aequi, “Legal Aid in the Philippines – the ‘Free Legal Assistance Group’, E.Dijkstra/W. Monasso, 1982
Politics of / and aid:
“Dynamics of Self – Determination”, Proceedings of the international academic conference on the Middle East, 16-18 June
1988, Amsterdam., ed. Erik Denters / Wim Monasso / Paul de Waart, Free University Press, Amsterdam, isbn 90-6256-751-7
A joint project of NOVIB and the Interfaculty Study Group on Peace and Security – Free University, Amsterdam, with cosponsoring by the Arab Thought Forum (East Jerusalem) and the International Centre for Peace in the Middle East (Tel Aviv)
“Report of a mission to Cambodia by Netherlands’ Members of Parliament / Politicians”, March 13-24, 1989” , ed. Wim
Monasso, Novib
Education:
“The Role of Fathers in Child Development”, Discussion Paper for the Bernard van Leer Foundation, The Hague, November
2000 (non-published manuscript)
Supplementary information
Affiliations:
International Commission of Jurists, Dutch Section, Leiden
Council for International Legal Cooperation (CILC), Leiden
Dutch Fundraisers Society (NGF), Amsterdam
The Resource Alliance, London
European Association for PlannedGiving (EAPG), London
Dutch Federation COC, Haaglanden: Working Group Politics & International Affairs
Global Alliance for LGBT Education (GALE), The Hague
Languages:
Dutch (mother-tongue); English (fluent),French (good),
German (good), Spanish and Italian (moderate)
Other areas of interest:
Piano, tennis, classic cars, story-telling, slow food