Herman is passionate about engaging different stakeholders to generate joint solutions to the challenges they face. Besides his position at Centre for Development Innovation (CDI) at Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands, Herman partners with CDR Associates to create capacities to deal with public and environmental conflicts. As an accredited Partnership Brokering Association (PBA) broker, Herman is supporting local and global partnerships, mainly in food security and natural resource management, in more than 25 countries. He divides his time between governments, companies, civil society organisations and research institutions. Herman is lead author of the acclaimed MSP Guide: How to design and facilitate multi-stakeholder partnerships, which has been referred to as an “invaluable management tool for identifying the core principles, tools and considerations needed to optimise your organisation’s approach to engagement”. This book, which has recently been translated into French and Spanish, is accompanied by The MSP Tool Guide which contains 60 tools to make MSPs more effective.