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Hanna Bakker-de Jong from BSN and Liz Brearley from SHU, although in the background but were always available when needed, for questions, support and arrangements. Thank you, Ladies!
Without the availability of databases, this research would have been ended as a “mission impossible”. Thank you, Ester Valstar of RVO, Alex Meerkerk of NMCP- PUM and Isolde Heinz of GIZ. Only with your support it became possible to question the Russian managers and organisations, experienced with international training and traineeships, and advisory services.
Thanks to Grigorii Busarev and Natalia Okruzhnova from OBI’s subsidiary in Kazan-Russia, for providing all the necessary assistance “on the ground”.
I would also like to express my gratitude to a wider group of friends and colleagues, who contributed to the thesis, each from their specific angle, expertise and knowledge. Many names, from Europe to Russia, to recall in a random order: Ferdinand Tuinstra, Marina Leonova, Patrick Driebeek, Veronika Skurikhina, the late Farid Khaziakhmetov, Jan van Roekel, Roufina Hardy, Peter Simms, Liliya Ziganshina, Tatsiana van den Brink, Valentino Belso, Peter Zashev, Herman Geerts, Arkadiy Armovsesyan, Aleksandr Tuylenev, Aygul Mirzanurova, Dietmar Fischer, Alsu Valeeva, Arbnor Pula, Timur Valeev, Valentina Buchina, Anna Kireeva and many others. Thank you all very much.
No one deserves as much thank you as my family and especially my wife Elly, for giving me the opportunity to pursue my dream and to conclude with a milestone in my career in business and international management advisory, with the completion of this thesis.
My apologises to my family, children, their partners and the grandchildren, for my absence in many occasions, for not being present at festive days and social events. Upcoming life will be more balanced. I presume, more equally divided between management education, coaching and consulting and on the other side, family and social life. Thank you all for acceptance, patience and resilience!
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