Désirée van Gorp is full-time professor of International Business and chairing the International Advisory Board at Nyenrode Business University. Désirée is engaged in several (supervisory/advisory) boards among others for Atradius, World Trade Organization’s Chairs Programme, NBTC Holland Marketing, Foundation Young & Bold, Impact Fair and Expert Panel and (chairman) of early-stage funding initiative of start-ups for the regional development organization, Utrecht, the Netherlands. She also is involved in the Women in Business Awards for the United Nations’ World Investment Forum and regularly part of AMBA’s Assessment Accreditation Committee. In addition to research and education she advises organizations, profit and non-profit, regarding sustainable value chains, building ecosystems, innovation and digitalization, team and boardroom dynamics while using the design thinking and decision intelligence method to enhance change in them. She obtained a master’s title in law at Leiden University; her PhD in business administration she defended at Nyenrode on the topic of global sourcing, offshoring & outsourcing; and she is design thinking educated at Stanford University.