About us
A community with a passion for water
Wavemakers United is a community of students, young professionals, and athletes with a passion for water. As a youth organization we focus on local challenges while having a global reach. Our aim is to contribute to the UN SDGs and involve as many youngsters as possible.
A Foundation with a passion for water
Wavemakers United is a non profit organization, better known as a foundation. This means that our organization is not aiming to profit from our activities and everything we do revolves around making impact. In 2023 the foundation has been granted the ANBI status.
The “Wave” consortium is shaped as a youth-led ecosystem that works on internal growth and produces tangible external outcomes.
Wavemakers United started this journey with a vision to address critical issues surrounding water and sustainability through education, awareness, youth involvement, innovation, job access, advocacy, and enhancing local frameworks. The realization that effective action requires local involvement in communities led to the formation of local consortia, named “Waves”, in various countries. Each “Wave”, eg Wave of Indonesia to others around the world, contributes to the global mission.
Meet our Management team
Tilly
Stroo
Founder &
Managing Director
Muhammet
Biljic
Education &
Program Manager
Sytske
van der Laan
Event Manager
Lucienne
Willems
Sport &
relations Manager
Jacolien
Terlouw - Joosse
Management Assistent
Daphne
van der Vaart
Social Media Manager
Lois
Douma
Community Manager
Marcelien
Bos - de Koning
Sports &
relations manager
Meet the members of the board
Meet our advisory board
Dr. Jasmine Jabali
Assistant Professor
Cholpon Aitakhunova
Research Fellow at Collective Leadership Institute
Dr. Isabela Espindola
Senior Officer responsible for the Young Water Professionals (IWA)
Pallas
Agterberg
Challenge Officer (Alliander)
Noémie
Plumier
Jurist Water & Sanitation
Carolina Tornesi MacKinnon
Business analyst (Brown & Caldwell)
Manuel
Jackson
Manager Stellenbosh University
Elysa Vaillancourt
Youth project manager (ISW)
Sabrina Farah Salsabilla
Water Expert Support Officer at Nuffic South East Asia
Diana Virgovicova
Founder of Xatoms
Moustafa
Abdalla
Chairman of WUF Egypt
Rachana
Mattur
Water Governance Coordinator at Water Youth Network
Meet our official supporters
Marcel Beukeboom
Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the Netherlandsto the FAO
Marcelien
de Koning
Olympic silver medalist sailing
Henk
Ovink
Former Dutch Special Envoy for Water
Meike van Ginneken
Dutch Special Envoy for Water
Jaime
de Bourbon de Parme
Climate Envoy Kingdom of The Netherlands