Raymond Frenken

Raymond holds a background in international financial journalism. He set up the Amsterdam bureau of Bloomberg News during the 1990s. His by-line appeared in leading business newspapers worldwide with reports on Dutch corporate news and international energy markets written for the Bloomberg and Dow Jones newswires.

At the end of the 1990s, Raymond covered international economic news for het Financieele Dagblad (the leading Dutch financial daily) in Amsterdam. After the millenium changed he reported on-air for CNBC Europe from Amsterdam and Brussels, enlightening and informing viewers across Europe on a daily basis.

In Brussels, his 2006 attempt to create a European television channel, EUX.TV, was only a partial success. As a webtv channel, it was sold to EurActiv in 2012.

As freelance journalist, Raymond produced broadcast news items on the ground in Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East, Iran and Afghanistan, often under challenging circumstances, for the EbS and Eurovision exchanges.

Since 2003, his journalistic focus has been on the euro crisis, European antitrust issues, climate change, energy security and European foreign policy.

Raymond parted with journalism in 2012 to take up a storyteller role at Dutch materials and life sciences company DSM, further developing the company's integrated reporting and writing and coordinating the 2012 annual report.

Raymond has worked and lived in London, Amsterdam, Zurich and Paris. He studied in Glasgow (Scotland) and and Tilburg (Netherlands) and holds a BJo degree. He lives with his family in Beek (Netherlands), close to the Belgian and German borders.