PROFILE - Theo J J Groothuizen
Theo J J Groothuizen
Counsellor - Science & Technology
The Royal Netherlands Embassy
Born in 1949 in the Netherlands. Graduated in industrial Design Engineering at the Delft University of Technology, and is since 1986 principle of Landmark Design Holding (Netherlands and Switzerland).
Groothuizen served as executive board member of International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) and the Association of Dutch Designers (BNO) and as advisor for the Bureau of European Design Associations (BEDA).
He was active in several international advisory boards and was tutor in international design workshops, initiated international exhibitions and has been invited as speaker, guest lecturer and jury member all over the world. He is fellow of the Foundation Design for the World, advisor for the European Institute for Design and Disability (EIDD) and honorary member of the BNO. He teached at the Delft University of Technology and served as member of its External Research Advisory Board. He teached also at the Design Academy. He functioned as international curator of the Gwangju Design Biennale 2005.
He was appointed Professor of Industrial Design at The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea.
Currently he is Counsellor for Science and Technology at the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in New Delhi India. He is member of the steering committee of the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2008.
