TOR082: Cordaid with Roderick Besseling

Roderick Besseling is the Open Data Coordinator within the Corporate Strategy Unit at Cordaid in the Netherlands. In this role, Roderick brings together his expertise in design, development and data analysis and is responsible for taking a leading position in the open development movement within the international development sector. His primary focus areas are the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) reporting process and embedding the open development philosophy within Cordaid.  He is a passionate advocate of the open development movement and believes that only through cooperation and collaboration among different stakeholders can sustainable solutions be developed and the aid dependency cycle be broken.