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Hubertus Jan van der Vaart (born 13 May 1955) is a Dutch American businessman, Rhodes Scholar, and co-founder/Chairman of SEAF (Small Enterprise Assistance Funds).
He was born in Leiden, Netherlands on 13 May 1955 to Hubertus Robert van der Vaart.
He moved to the United States as a child and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina where his father was a professor at N.C. State University. He attended Needham B. Broughton High School. Van der Vaart speaks his native Dutch, English, German, French, and some Polish and Russian as well. Van der Vaart resides in Northern Virginia.
Van der Vaart later attended the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill where he received his BA in Politics and Economics and was a brother of Chi Psi fraternity. Van der Vaart was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and received an M. Phil. in Economics from Oxford University while rowing on the Boat Club (OUBC). Van der Vaart then attended Yale Law School where he received his JD and studied finance at the Yale School of Management. He proceeded to practice law as a partner and associate with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in Washington, Brussels, Paris, New York City, and Frankfurt before co-founding SEAF along with Tom Gibson in 1989. While serving as CEO, Van der Vaart oversaw over $450 million invested throughout emerging market small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in dozens of countries worldwide.
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