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The Executive Team

The executive team is in charge of the management of the Foundation, of administering its grants and of making sure that the funds donated are used transparently and adequately by their recipients. It also provides guidance and support to all Trafigura offices and to their employees in their philanthropic initiatives.

Vincent Faber and Corine Dykmans

Vincent Faber, Executive Director

A Geophysicist Engineer by background, graduated from the French Petroleum Institute near Paris, France, Vincent started his early professional years in the oil business and further on as a management consultant in a Paris-based consultancy firm. At the age of 30, Vincent gave a new orientation to his professional life and entered into an international humanitarian path. Vincent has since been working for almost 20 years now with some of the world's leading NGOs and international organizations, both in the field - in the midst of some of the most dramatic war situations and acute crises of the last decades - and in headquarter settings, in top executive positions.

Vincent has worked in a countless number of countries, on all continents and offers a very wide scope of competence and an extensive international experience. Thanks to his dual corporate and NGO professional course, he strongly believes that many synergies can be found between both worlds and that by joining forces together, they can make a genuine difference in making our world a better and fairer one.

Corine Dykmans, Project Manager

Corine studied languages in Brussels, Belgium, and graduated as a Translator (English-Spanish-French). She left Liège to settle in Geneva where she joined the Trafigura Group in 2007. Her strong interest in international developments and the humanitarian world at large led her naturally to join the Foundation when it was established.

Corine is also the contact person for all administrative, communication and project-related operational matters.

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