Alex Van Heeren

Investor/Honorary Consul

Western Cape, South Africa

About

Experience

  • Chairman at Worldwide Leisure Ltd
    May 1985 - Present · 41 yrs 3 mos

    Chairman of Worldwide Leisure Limited, parent company for tourism-related business in New Zealand, South Africa and Fiji. (www.hukaretreats.com) Grande Provence Wine Estate, South Africa - www.grandeprovence.co.za Huka Lodge, New Zealand - www.hukalodge.co.nz (Member of Relais & Chateaux) Dolphin Island, Fiji - www.dolphinislandfiji.com (Member of Relais & Chateaux) Member of the Advisory Board of the University of Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa. Member of a number of advisory boards covering a range of business and charitable interests, including the Roosevelt Foundation in The Netherlands, that every second year honours outstanding citizens who have demonstrated a lifelong commitment to the Franklin Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms. Honorary Consul for New Zealand in Antwerpen, Belgium. Former Honorary Consul for The Netherlands in Auckland, New Zealand - for 25 years from 1985 to March 2012. Former Chairman of New Zealand Export-Import Corporation; Former Vice-Chairman Bahrain New Zealand Cold Storage Warehousing company, a joint venture between the governments of Bahrain and New Zealand; Former member supervisory Board of Tranz Rail New Zealand; former Director of the Owens Group, New Zealand, a previously publicly listed company. Former member New Zealand Eminent Persons Group for International Trade. Former Chairman of the World Fellowship and International Trustee of The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award; Former Trustee of Outward Bound UK.