Staff

BankTrack’s secretariat in Nijmegen has a staff of six, plus an external website designer.

Johan Frijns, Director, campaigns

Johan has been the BankTrack coordinator since 2003. He also worked for twelve years as co-ordinator of various international networks of NGOs. In 1992, he helped cofound the worldwide A SEED activist network, where he worked until 1997 as co-ordinator on multilateral banks. In 1998 Johan became coordinator of the 'International Financial Institutions programme' of Friends of the Earth International, which he lead for four years. Johan holds a MA in Political Science/Development Studies and a BA in Philosophy and Linguistics from Nijmegen University, Netherlands. With the arrival of the new operations manager his attention is now fully with campaigns coordination and strategic planning
Contact: email Johan

Wietse Potiek, Operations Manager

Wietse is the operations manager of Banktrack since November 2011. His work includes taking care of internal finances, funding, general project management, smooth running of the office and personnel. Wietse has been operations manager with several organizations including the "Academy of Independence" which he -amongst others- is a founder of. Besides that he designed projects for the not-for-profit sector, acted as consultant and project manager in international projects.  Wietse holds a Masters in Law. His focus was mainly on financial issues and human- and humanitarian rights issues.

Contact: email Wietse

Yann Louvel, Climate and Energy Campaign Coordinator

Yann is the climate and energy campaign coordinator for BankTrack since September 2010. Before that he worked as private finance campaigner for Friends of the Earth France for 3 years, targeting the French banks involved in many dodgy deals. He also worked as the Quebec regional coordinator for the sustainable campuses project for the Sierra Youth Coalition, the youth arm of the Sierra Club of Canada. He holds a M.Sc. inenvironmental sciences from the Université du Québec à Montréal.

Contact: email Yann

Beatrijs Janssen, Communication Officer

Beatrijs Janssen is the communication officer since June 2011. After her studies in Cultural Anthropology and her postgraduate studies in International Development, she lived in Kenya for almost two years working for VSO and Hivos. She has also worked for ICCO and the Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen (CIDIN). She is responsible for a smooth communication flow between Banktrack members, the outreach to external audiences and the press. She also acts as liaison between Banktrack and the banking sector.

Contact: email Beatrijs

Jennifer Stamatelos, Campaigns Assistant

Jennifer joined BankTrack in November 2011 and is currently a campaigns assistant.  She holds a B.A. degree in Economics and Environmental Science from Columbia University and worked for several years in the financial industry following her undergraduate studies.  Jennifer worked as an Associate Portfolio Manager at AllianceBernstein and decided to leave the firm in 2009 to pursue a Masters Degree in Sustainable Development at Utrecht University.  Her responsibilities include providing research support to the campaign officers and website management.

Contact: email Jennifer

Raymon van Vught, Web Assistent

Raymon is the part-time website assistent for BankTrack since september 2009. His tasks consist of taking care of the website content and various other activities to keep our digital matters up to date. Besides working for BankTrack,Raymon holds a degree in Fine Arts and works as a multidisciplinary artist, designer and teacher. His main activities are painting and digital illustration.

Contact: email Raymon, Raymon's website.

Bart Bruil, Web designer

Bart Bruil runs his own webdesign company, Easymind. Since 2003 he has designed both this website -and previous versions- as well as a number of websites for our ongoing campaigns.