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Our team

Inspectors

Lesley

Lesley : Director

Director

Lesley lives in The Netherlands and founded Eyes on Animals in 2008. She has a Masters degree in Ethology from the University of Guelph in Canada and has been inspecting animal transport and slaughter conditions internationally since 2001.

Margreet

Margreet : Inspector/Trainer

Inspector/Trainer

Margreet lives in The Netherlands and joined Eyes on Animals in its early years, in 2009, after a long career as a therapist. She has many years working as an inspector and trainer for the organization.  Margreet also manages our social media.

Asalet

Asalet : Inspector

Inspector

Asalet lives in Germany and helps run our training and inspection program in Turkey where he is originally from. His focus is on reducing the suffering of animals during transport and slaughter in Turkey.

Madelaine

Madelaine : Inspector/Trainer

Inspector/Trainer

Madelaine lives in the Netherlands and joined Eyes on Animals in 2015 as a full-time inspector and trainer. She has a BSc in Animal Science from Leeuwarden Agricultural School and many years of experience working in the field with farm animals.

Monique

Monique : Inspector/Trainer

Inspector/Trainer

Monique lives in the Netherlands and joined Eyes on Animals in 2012 after a career in health care. She helps with all things linked with inspections and training and feels most at home working in the field directly with the animals

Berker

Berker : Inspector

Inspector

Berker lives in Turkey and is a veterinarian. He assists with our inspections of livestock transports to Turkey and of Turkish slaughterhouses. He has also helped organize numerous animal-welfare workshops in Turkey.

Nicola

Nicola : Inspector

Inspector

Nicola lives in England. After many years of assisting Eyes on Animals with investigative research she joined the team of inspectors in 2017 to help with the field work. Her inspections of animal transports focus on animals being imported and exported by the UK and Ireland.

Roy

Roy : Trainer

Trainer

Roy is a stunman and has worked with farm animals since 1996. As a late teenager he took on a summer-job at a slaughterhouse and saw that there were bad conditions for animals. He decided to work full-time in slaughterhouses in order to be able to make a difference. He has now years of experience working as a stunman in cattle and pig slaughterhouses in The Netherlands. He has a certificate as Animal Welfare Officer from Bristol and since 2019 is the main person in charge of animal-welfare at a large Dutch cattle plant. In 2018 he joined Eyes on Animals to help us with our projects in developing countries where slaughter techniques are really inhumane and modern equipment to restrain and stun lacking. He teaches and shows by example how to handle animals calmly and how to use captive bolt and electric stunning to render animals insensitive to pain before cutting their throats. He cares deeply about animals and is willing to work in tough situations in order to reduce suffering.

Other team members

Sanja

Sanja : Web editor

Web editor

Sanja lives in Germany and manages the Eyes on Animals website. She posts all the articles and photos and ensures that the Dutch, English and German versions are up to date. She also helps with fundraising.

Ingrid

Ingrid : Horse inspector

Horse inspector

Ingrid lives in the Netherlands and joined EonA in 2010. She is involved in getting publicity for Eyes on Animals' welfare initiatives and is regularly in the field as an animal welfare inspector specializing in horses.

Katarzyna

Katarzyna : Trainer

Trainer

Katarzyna lives in Poland and is a professional translator with also many years experience training police on the European legislation protecting animals during transport. She runs the Eyes on Animals and TSB|AWF training program of Polish Road Inspection Authority (ITD) in Poland.

Levente

Levente : Trainer

Trainer

Levente lives in Hungary and runs the Eyes on Animals and TSB|AWF animal-welfare training program for the Hungarian competent authorities such as the highway police and official veterinarians. Levente also assists with our truck-driver training courses.

Jack

Jack : Photographer & webdesigner

Photographer & webdesigner

Jack is a freelance photographer and webdesigner, living in the Netherlands. He is responsible for our website and on occasion accompanies us during inspections to take pictures.

The board

Patricia Beekelaar

Patricia Beekelaar : General board member

General board member

Editor

Suzanne Renzen

Suzanne Renzen : President

President

Marketing and communications professional

Jane Barrett

Jane Barrett : Treasurer

Treasurer

Economics teacher

Lenny

Lenny : Legal advisor

Legal advisor

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Eyes on Animals main office is in downtown Amsterdam, at the Amsterdam House Hotel. The generous and warm-hearted hotel owner donated to Eyes on Animals, free of charge, a beautiful room where our inspectors can work, hold meetings and store their material.

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