Arjen van der Wolf

Arjen is an experienced Markets Development Coordinator with a 30+ year history of working in the non-profit organization Mercy Ships. With Master’s degrees in Biology and Geology from the University of Utrecht he worked as researcher, lecturer en program maker for television and radio before joining Mercy Ships in 1992. In that year he boarded the first Mercy Ships hospital ship Anastasis with his family and shortly after that joined the USA office as Communications Director, while working many short periods onboard several Mercy Ships vessels. In 2001 he started developing Mercy Ships Holland as National Director and in 2017 he joined Mercy Ships Global Association (based in Lausanne, Switzerland, where Mercy Ships was founded) to help coordinate the work of all 16 National Offices worldwide.