< BACK TO ABOUT Joeri van den Steenhoven Principal Adviser and Member of the General Assembly, the Lisbon Council Joeri van Den Steenhoven is principal adviser and member of the general assembly of the Lisbon Council. Mr van Den Steenhoven is vice-president of the executive board at the University of Applied Sciences Leiden. Previously, he served as vice-president for systems innovation at MaRS, the world’s largest urban innovation hub located in Canada and was CEO and co-founder of Kennisland, a leading social innovation lab based in the Netherlands.