Alderperson Carolien Gehrels

Curriculum vitae

Overview

Before Carolien Gehrels became an Alderperson, she was managing director of Berenschot Communicatie. In 1992 she came to Amsterdam to work at the Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis (Hospital).

Education

• 1986–1992: University of Groningen – Dutch language and literature; specialisation: Communication in Organizations. Subsidiary subjects: industrial and organisational psychology.

• 1980–1986: University preparatory education (VWO). Subjects: Dutch, English, German, Mathematics I and II, Physics, Chemistry, Economics I.

Work experience

Carolien Gehrels was managing director of Berenschot Communicatie, which specialises in positioning and branding, government communication and communication research. Among other tasks she was responsible for the city marketing projects for the cities of Amsterdam and Maastricht, the marketing of the centre of Hoofddorp as a prime location and the referendum concerning the surroundings of Utrecht Central Station.

• September 2000– April 2006: Berenschot Communicatie, managing director

• 1997–2000: Berenschot Communicatie, advisor

• 1994–1997: Podium Bureau voor Educatieve Communicatie B.V. / DST Educatieve Communicatie B.V. (educational communications bureau): Project leader/advisor

• 1992–1994: Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis Amsterdam (Hospital). Staff member of the Internal Communications department, focusing on absenteeism management.

Publications

• Carolien Gehrels, Maartje Prins, Robert Jonkers et al, Managementverhalen voor communicatie (Management Stories for Communication), Academic Services, November 2005.

• Carolien Gehrels, Hanneke Möhring, Tanja Verhey and Guido Kwikkers, Verantwoord verleiden in beleidsprocessen. Het Communicatiespectrum (Sound Seduction in Management Processes. The Communications Spectrum), Van Gorkum, October 2004.

• C.G. Gehrels, E. van Venetië, J. Thevenet et al, Managementmodellen voor communicatie (Management Models for Communication), Nieuwezijds, May 2003.

• Hanneke Möhring, Carolien Gehrels, Roel in ’t Veld and Peter Plug, Beladen begrippen, vertrouwen en loyaliteit in het openbaar bestuur (Emotionally Charged Concepts, Trust and Loyalty in Public Administration), Elsevier, October 2002.

• Ocker van Munster, Carolien Gehrels, Max Merkx and Paul Adriaanse. De tekens van de nieuwe tijd. Over associaties in de 21ste eeuw (The Signs of the New Age. On Associations in the 21st Century), Elsevier, The Hague, December 1999.