{"id":4879,"date":"2025-10-27T09:53:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T09:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flevum.nl\/?post_type=speakers&#038;p=4879"},"modified":"2025-11-20T12:49:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T12:49:30","slug":"charles-groenhuijsen","status":"publish","type":"speakers","link":"https:\/\/flevum.nl\/en\/speakers\/charles-groenhuijsen\/","title":{"rendered":"Moderator: Charles Groenhuijsen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Charles Groenhuijsen is a journalist, author, speaker, and moderator with over fifty years of experience in media and public affairs. He began his career at <em>De Volkskrant<\/em> and later worked for Dutch public television, including as a U.S. correspondent. He is widely regarded as one of the most insightful and optimistic commentators of our time.<br>Optimism runs as a thread through all his work. In his bestseller <em>Optimists Rule the World<\/em>, he highlights how progress, innovation, and human resilience are often underestimated. As a speaker and moderator, he brings complex global issues to life with personal stories and insight. He speaks with warmth, humor, and curiosity about a world that\u2019s changing faster than ever\u2014yet in which human connection and storytelling remain essential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4870,"menu_order":0,"template":"","tags":[],"event_category":[],"class_list":["post-4879","speakers","type-speakers","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flevum.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/4879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flevum.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flevum.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speakers"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flevum.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flevum.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flevum.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4879"},{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flevum.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=4879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}