{"id":674,"date":"2025-10-02T03:51:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/ruijsink-saskia\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:51:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:51:41","slug":"ruijsink-saskia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/ruijsink-saskia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruijsink Saskia"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content column wide left normal content view\" id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"rounded-corner\"><\/div>\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<header class=\"contents\">\n<h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSaskia Ruijsink<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"author_addthis\">\n<div class=\"addthis\">\n\t<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style\" addthis:title=\"Ruijsink Saskia\">\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_button_facebook_like\" fb:like:layout=\"button_count\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_button_tweet\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_pill_style\"><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n\t\t<!-- AddThis Button END -->\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n<div class=\"object-left\">\n<div class=\"img border\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><b>Saskia Ruijsink<\/b> has a background in the field of urban planning and urban development. She has an MSc (2005) in Urban Planning (magna cum laude), obtained at the Post Graduate Institute for Human Settlements (Leuven, Belgium) and an MSc in Technology and Society, obtained at Eindhoven University of Technology in (2004).<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">She joined the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (<a href=\"http:\/\/ihs.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\">IHS<\/a>) in 2007, where she works on and manages training and advisory work in the fields of participation, urban and regional planning and development, as well as climate change. In 2009-2010 she finalized an assignment on gender responsive land management, for which she was based for four months in the Global Land Tool Network secretariat at UN-HABITAT in Nairobi, Kenya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Saskia has participated in international workshops and has research and working experience in the Netherlands, Albania, Kosovo, Croatia, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Angola, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, El Salvador, Bolivia, Brazil, China and Canada. <\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Before entering IHS, Saskia worked as a consultant in the Netherlands. She worked in teams on participatory development plans for areas contracted by (local) governments and social housing agencies in a variety of cities and regions.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"children\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<section class=\"children related\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"wleft\">\n<div class=\"img\">\n<div class=\"heading\"><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/media\/images\/broker-24\/19-being-networked\/70238-3-eng-gb\/19-being-networked_column.jpg\" alt=\"The importance of being networked\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wright\">\n<header>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\">The importance of being networked<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\">Banashree Banerjee<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/van-den-dool-leon\/\">Leon van den Dool <\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/van-eerd-maartje\/\">Maartje van Eerd <\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/ruijsink-saskia\/\">Saskia Ruijsink<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFebruary 10, 2025<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\n<\/header>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n\t\t\tCities are a breeding place for innovation in an increasingly urbanized world. 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