Hubertus van der Vaart
Appearance
![]() |
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Lasha_Shanidze%2C_Chief_Executive_Officer%2C_MCG%2C_Giorgi_Arveladze%2C_Minister_of_Economic_Development%2C_Ambassador_John_Tefft%2C_and_Mr_Hubertus_van_der_Vaart%2C_Director%2C_SEAF_at_the_project_launch_%28January_31%2C_2007%29.jpg/220px-thumbnail.jpg)
Hubertus Jan van der Vaart (born 13 May 1955) is a
Dutch American businessman, Rhodes Scholar, and co-founder/Chairman of SEAF
(Small Enterprise Assistance Funds).
Biography
He was born in
Leiden, Netherlands
on 13 May 1955 to Hubertus Robert van der Vaart.
He moved to the United States as a child and grew up in
Needham B. Broughton High School. Van der Vaart speaks his native Dutch, English, German, French, and some Polish and Russian as well. Van der Vaart resides in Northern Virginia
.
Van der Vaart later attended the
small and medium enterprises
(SMEs) in dozens of countries worldwide.
Publications
Defining SMEs: A Less Imperfect Way of Defining Small and Medium Enterprises in Developing Countries September 2008, Brookings Global Economy and Development