Arleen Emanuels has been appointed Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office of Suriname, as of January 2023. She is the founder of AGE Consultancy NV (2004), a consultancy firm specialized in Strategic and Change Management. She has been engaged in EU and PAHO projects and in the INTENT program as a mentor for startups. Arleen holds an MBA (2005) in Strategic Management and Macro Economics. Her former career was in Biomedical Sciences. She has a master’s in medical biology (1990) and holds a PhD in tumor biology (1998). Arleen was a researcher with, respectively Groningen University, the Netherlands, Georgetown University in Washington DC and Harvard University in Boston, USA.