Freek Spinnewijn is Director of FEANTSA, the European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless - a Brussels-based European network of NGOs working on the issue of homelessness. Its members are over 100 organisations in 30 European countries.

Freek Spinnewijn has a university degree in medieval history and MA in European studies. Before FEANTSA he was director of a European network of older people's organisations.

As a leader of the only major European network that focuses exclusively on homelessness at European level, Freek Spinnewijn sits on the steering group of several European and national research and exchange projects on homelessness.