Mr. Jasper Hilkhuijsen

MSc, Architect (NL) MHKIUD, LEED AP ND

Senior East Asia Innovation & Sustainable Development Manager, ARUP

As Senior East Asia Innovation Manager, Jasper is leading the facilitation and enablement of an innovation culture across Arup’s East Asia region which includes about 3,000 members of staff in 15 offices. This entails building a formal innovation pipeline, for teams and groups, to enable, capture and drive innovation through both internal and external collaboration.

His responsibility as Senior East Asia Sustainable Development Manager is to ensure that Arup’s global “A Better Way Strategy” is successfully contextualized and implemented across the region. Key activities include equipping various teams on how to address sustainable developments in projects and bring clients on board, be a driver to accelerate internal and external action in Arup’s sphere of influence and look after Arup’s corporate net zero strategy.

Jasper is a passionate advocate for Sustainable Development and is an expert in optimizing social, environmental and economic values in any type of project. Understanding that Innovation is instrumental in scaling these values, he constantly seeks and facilitates solutions and approaches that go beyond business as usual.