Nienke Teunissen Nienke is Managing Director at War Child Deutschland, an organisation that provides psychosocial support, protection, and education for children affected by conflict. Her first encounter with fundraising was in 2003, when she researched the impact of negative versus positive framing in fundraising advertisements during her Master’s degree in Social Science. After her studies, she joined WWAV/RAPP, a marketing agency specialising in fundraising in the Netherlands and the UK, where she worked for nine years with more than 80 charities and wrote a book on major gifts fundraising. In 2014, Nienke joined War Child Netherlands, leading large integrated fundraising projects, including music and sports events, TV shows, gala dinners, and direct marketing campaigns, for ten years before moving to War Child Deutschland. Alongside her work for War Child, she is a trainer in the leadership and self-development programme Leaders of Tomorrow, mainly in the CEE region.