Folkert de Jager

About

Building on 25 years professional experience in Integrated Water Resource Management, Drinking Water Supply & Sanitation and Urban Services & Utility Management, Folkert remains committed to enhancing sustainable water resources management and improving access to water supply and sanitation services. Folkert is a competent and results oriented policy coordinator and programme manager, with a creative mind, a sound technical background, institutional understanding and a good eye for governance and political sensitivities.

Experience

• Strategic Advisor - Life Cycle Maintenance at Rijkswaterstaat
  Dec 2025 - Present · 7 mos

• Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken (Full-time · 6 yrs 1 mo)
  • First Secretary Water Management, the Netherlands Embassy in Cairo, Egypt
    Jul 2023 - Nov 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • First Secretary Water Management & Food Security, the Netherlands Embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh
    Nov 2019 - Jul 2023 · 3 yrs 9 mos

• Vitens Evides International (VEI) (12 yrs 9 mos)
  • Teamleader Asia
    Oct 2018 - Nov 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Teamleader Asia
    Sep 2016 - Sep 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Resident Project Manager, Bangladesh
    Jan 2013 - Sep 2016 · 3 yrs 9 mos

• Water & Sanitation Delegate at IFRC / NLRC, Mongolia, China PR, DPR Korea
  Aug 2005 - Dec 2006 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Consultant Hydraulic Engineering & Hydrology at Fugro
  Oct 2000 - Aug 2005 · 4 yrs 11 mos