Senior Advisor

Thom Sprenger brings over 25 years of experience in setting up, managing and evaluating innovative global and local multi-stakeholder initiatives with a high degree of strategic and structural complexity. He is passionate about leading and facilitating ‘Agents of Change’ in their challenging process to contribute more effectively to Sustainable Development Goals.

His career includes senior positions with the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, the BoP Innovation Centre and HarvestPlus (hosted by the International Food Policy and Research Institute). Since 2017 he has been a senior associate of the Partnering Initiative.

Since 2010 Thom has worked as an independent consultant with a strong track record in multi-stakeholder collaboration, including approaches to improve partnership effectiveness, governance and stakeholder engagement, Theory of Change, strategy development and senior management coaching.  He was engaged in assessing and evaluating partnership strategies and approaches for FAO, WFP, UNDCO, OSCE, GAIN and most recently, UNESCO.

For the whole of 2019, he was Interim Senior partnership advisor to the World Vision (WV) Global Partnership Team, supporting the implementation of WV’s innovative Partner of Choice program, a holistic organisational partnering framework to foster effective collaboration.

Thom has facilitated and supported different global initiatives, including the HarvestPlus partnership (biofortification), The Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) Alliance, the UN Sun Business Network (SBN), the Amsterdam Initiative against Malnutrition (AIM), the Access to Medicine Index, the Global Development Learning Network (GDLN) of the World Bank and the Digital Public Goods Alliance.  Many of these platforms and alliances include UN organisations as partners, founders or hosts.