Wieteke Dupain is CEO of Euclid Network (EN), the largest umbrella network of intermediaries in Europe supporting and representing social enterprises and social innovators. EN members support and represent more than 0.5 million social enterprises in Europe and are active in 74 countries.
Wieteke also serves on the EU Group of Experts on the Social Economy and Social Enterprises (GECES), the UN Inter-Agency Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE), as an advisory board member of the EU European Social Fund Social Innovation+ Initiative and Fund, on the Policy Leadership Council of the Schwab Foundation Global Alliance for Social Entrepreneurship in partnership with the WEF, and as a board member of two global business school educational non-profits.
Previously, Wieteke developed over 25 years of experience in leading and driving positive (systemic) change across the public, private and third sectors, inter alia at the UN in Bolivia and New York, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Microsoft, Thomson Reuters and CEMS Global Alliance in Management Education, having previously worked as an entrepreneur. In 2006, she was recognised for outstanding leadership and innovation and received one of GBF’s global leadership awards from HRH the Crown Prince of Denmark.
After working and living across the world, Wieteke now lives with her husband and two sons in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.