Marije Ten Kate

Head Urban Planner at Municipality of Rotterdam | The Netherlands

For Marije Ten Kate, a TEAM clearly means Together Everyone Achieves More – and we can only support that! As Head Urban Planner, Marije deals with societal transitions in vital urban systems on a daily basis and emphasises the importance of cities acknowledging the need to adapt to those changes. Vital systems take a long time to adjust and ignoring the changes can cause major negative societal consequences. Marije is eager to communicate the urge for immediate action and, simultaneously, provides people in charge with ideas on how to work on typical issues and characteristics. Being told about a problem AND how to solve it? Sounds like a win-win to us.