Jelte de Jongh

Jelte de Jongh is the founder and director of Leeruniek, a social enterprise focused on improving the quality of education through data analysis. Jelte helps schools, boards, and governments throughout the Netherlands address complex educational challenges. Prior to founding Leeruniek, Jelte was an MBA student at the London Business School from 2010 to 2012. Jelte also worked as a part-time employee at Bridges Ventures in 2011, where they assessed the potential of Sub-Saharan Africa for impact investing partnerships. From 2008 to 2010, Jelte served as an assistant to the Executive Board at Wolters Kluwer. Before that, they were a consultant at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants from 2006 to 2008. Jelte's entrepreneurial experience includes founding Workeffect, a training business for legal professionals, in 2004. Jelte designed the training program, recruited and coached trainers, and partnered with Wolters Kluwer. After two years and nine months, Jelte sold Workeffect.

Jelte de Jongh's education history includes several notable institutions and degrees. Jelte completed their High School education at Vossius Gymnasium from 1991 to 1997, focusing on subjects such as Maths, Chemistry, Physics, Latin, French, German, English, Dutch, and History. Jelte pursued further education at Utrecht University from 1998 to 2005, earning their LL.M. degree in Corporate Law and Public International Law. In 2004, they also attended the University of Victoria as a visiting student, specializing in International Law and Music.

In 2010, Jelte de Jongh enrolled at the London Business School and completed their Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in 2012. The following year, in 2011, they briefly attended the MIT Sloan School of Management as a visiting student, focusing on Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies. In 2014, Jelte de Jongh participated in the Global Solutions Program at Singularity University.

No specific degree name is mentioned for their enrollment at Université de Bourgogne in 1997, but their field of study was French Language and Literature.