How to mentor successful Hague millennials

"For a long time, the young generation of wealthy people fell between two stools in the banking world," says ING's passionate private banker Lisa Rijling (1989). From ING's goal - 'empowering people to stay a step ahead in life and in business' - ING...

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Luzac The Hague

Playing top-class sport and studying? You can do it here.

It is mouse-still in the reading room. Rector Joyce Doeze Jager-van Ham gazes through a glass window at a class of studying final exam students. "What concentration," she whispers to her colleague Wendy Braakman. The two then walk to her adjacent room on Oranjestraat. "That's so...

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Stark Real Estate

Karola Grünenbaum guides you through the Hague housing market

"It's not about bricks and mortar, it's about people." Speaking is Karola Grünenbaum, owner of Stark Real Estate. German by origin with mainly an expat clientele. Dutch, English and the occasional word of German alternate during the conversation that takes place in the Hilton hotel,...

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Urgent Translation

'Our great strength is that we are in The Hague'

What do you do when you have to create a story for BOIDR about a Hague-based translation agency that then gets to translate this story - and all the other texts - itself for the first English version of this magazine? Do you deliberately keep it simple or do you challenge the...

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Realtor with a golden edge

It is raining compliments on Facebook for Avenir Vastgoed and especially for owner Roos Ouderdorp. The nicest: 'I too was one of those stubborn guys who thought it was best to buy a house without a buying agent. I couldn't be more wrong. Roos is professional, knowledgeable...

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Bij Ons In De Residentie

12 x young and successful entrepreneurs from The Hague

Urgent Vertalen Alicia Posthuma (31), co-owner of Urgent Vertalen, translations and legalisations, works with translators and freelance translators who are all so qualified and specialised that no assignment is ever labelled 'mission impossible'. "For each assignment, we select the right translator. It all has to be...

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Marjon Lok

'More business partner than classic law firm'

In 2019, DVDW Advocaten moved from a villa in the centre of The Hague to a cosmopolitan tower in the Beatrixkwartier. "This building better suits who we are," says equity partner Marjon Lok in the boardroom with panoramic views of the surrounding skyscrapers. Experts in corporate law

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Rent in the most beautiful places in The Hague

A few footsteps away from Hotel Des Indes, Robert Nederlof (34) steps into the building at 44 Lange Voorhout, followed in his wake by his brother Tim (31). "Watch where you're walking, though," Robert warns the photographer, who is less than ten centimetres from...

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Reuring in romantic Wassenaar

Since taking office in 2012, Kasteel de Wittenburg's director Ralf Meppelder has been focusing mainly on large, one-day events. Now is not a good time, but normally many people know how to find the estate, hidden behind the Wassenaar woods. Like the Rabobank, which organised a high...

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