Trustee
Dania is a lawyer and CEDR commercial mediator. She previously lived and worked in Asia for 26 years, most recently specialising in educational and employment conflict resolution as an associate on the Singapore Mediation Panel. Dania also holds a master’s degree in psychology, with a particular interest in the neuroscience of the teenage brain. Her concern for mental health and well-being of young people inspired her to join Thriving Through Venture as a trustee, focusing on the strategic side of the charity. She now also sits as a magistrate in Wiltshire. Dania is half Dutch, a mother of two daughters and brings her global perspective and dedication to supporting young people to her role as trustee.
Interests
Dania’s broader interests lie in health and ecology. She has a keen interest in natural holistic and Eastern medicine and holds a diploma in plant-based nutrition from Cornell University. With a lifelong interest in nature, travel and exploration since being selected onto one of the original Operation Raleigh expeditions in Guyana, South America in 1988 and in 1991 worked with the World Wildlife Fund in the Mafia Island archipelago in Tanzania and in 1994 with the World Bank in Washington DC, looking at sustainable development in China and Tibet before moving to Asia the same year.