Ruurd Brouwer was appointed CEO of TCX in January 2015 with primary objective to grow TCX’s impact. Prior to joining TCX he held several senior management positions within FMO, the Dutch Development Bank.

He started his career in 1993 with the United Nations Protection Force in Croatia and Bosnia Hercegovina, after which he joined the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the private sector department.

Ruurd is an experienced Supervisory Board member, having served on the Board of Directors of financial institutions in Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire, Senegal, Mauritania and of EM focused (PE) funds based in the UK, the US, Geneva and Luxemburg. He was member of several emerging market focused investment committees.

Currently, he chairs the Board of Directors of the Global Gender Smart Fund, the world’s largest gender lens investment fund and is a member of the United Nations Global Commission for SDG finance.

Parallel to his professional career Ruurd was lecturer International Finance at The Hague University of Applied Sciences and Guest Lecturer at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and the Institute of Social Studies. He thoroughly enjoys teaching on Responsible Banking, Emerging Markets and Financial Instability and he publishes frequently on same topics.