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Mark Knippenberg was the Director at Kandersteg International Scout Centre

Kandersteg International Scout Centre

Kandersteg International Scout Centre is an international Scout centre in Kandersteg, Switzerland. The centre provides lodges, chalets and campsites covering 17 hectares of land. It is open to Scouts year round, as well as to non-Scouts for most of the year...

(KISC). from November 2005 until Autumn 2010. Mark first worked at KISC as Deputy Director for Guest Services in 2001 to 2003 when he then took on the role of Deputy Director for Internal Services until 2005. He briefly left the centre to work as Director Adult Resources at the World Scout Bureau before returning in November 2005 to become Director. One of the major projects he was involved in as Director at KISC was the creation of the KanderLodge building in 2008/09.

Mark is also on the planning team for the European Center Managers’ Conference which aims to strengthen and develop co-
operation among Guide and Scout Centres and to facilitate strong working relations between the staff of those centres. He is also the sole director and co-ordinator of the Goose Network which improves the quality of environmental, nature and cultural activities at European Scout and Guide Centres.

He was previously an officer in the Royal Netherlands Navy

Royal Netherlands Navy

The Koninklijke Marine is the navy of the Netherlands. In the mid-17th century the Dutch Navy was the most powerful navy in the world and it played an active role in the wars of the Dutch Republic and later those of the Batavian Republic and the Kingdom of the Netherlands...

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