Anna van der Ploeg

Manager Education & Sensitization
Anna van der Ploeg

As a former secondary school teacher (University of Zurich, lic. phil. I English and German Studies), Anna van der Ploeg is responsible for educational work in Switzerland at Helvetas. She leads projects in cooperation with universities and students in the field of sustainability and designs and leads the educational programme at exhibitions.

After several years of teaching in Switzerland and East Africa (Kenya), she continued her education in development cooperation at the ETH (CAS NADEL) and has been working at Helvetas in the communications department since 2014.