Samira Ben Messaoud is business director of Nest. She is also the founder of Bureau Convoi. With this agency, she wants to help cultural and social organizations get things done or change things.

Previously, she worked in the public affairs department and as a political advisor at Rotterdam City Hall, and she was a press officer at the municipality of Amsterdam. Before that, she worked for several years in the House of Representatives. She studied American Studies and Communication in Utrecht, Amsterdam and the US.

She is also a board member of online radio station Operator, festival Grauzone and theater maker and writer Marjolijn van Heemstra.