Before assuming this position early 2015, Ben headed Rabobank’s Multilateral Development Banking team. From 2006 – 2011 he was Regional Manager for Rabo Development in Asia and South America, serving a variety of rural banks with strategy planning, capacity building and project management in countries as China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Brazil and Egypt. Before that, Ben served for 10 years in various senior management functions in the domestic banking network of Rabobank, a.o. as Director Corporate Banking for Rabobank Arnhem and as Adjunct Regional Director.