Coen van Oostrom

Biography: Coen van Oostrom is Founder & CEO of EDGE, a global leader in tech-enabled, sustainable & healthy building development. EDGE is an OVG Real Estate company, which Coen founded in 1997. OVG’s portfolio consists of more than a million square meters of development in The Netherlands, Germany and United States. Coen aims to radicalize sustainability through powerful innovations and seeks to effect further change in infrastructure and urban development, while drawing inspiration from global leaders. Galvanized by a meeting with Al Gore and his climate change documentary ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, Coen became convinced of the green promise of untapped technologies, making it the company’s mission to deliver new standards of tech-driven responsible urban office development. To bring his vision for a better world forward in the built environment, Coen is Young Global Leader mentor of the Amsterdam Hub of Global Shapers, Co-Chair of the Real Estate Governors at the World Economic Forum, Member of the European Council on Foreign Relations and on the Board of the Urban Land Institute Europe. In the past, Coen has been active on the Board of the American Chamber of Commerce, the Board of Stichting Sophia Kinderziekenhuis Fonds, on the supervisory Board of the Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest and as Chairman of the Veerhavenconcert.