Barend Toet is the founder and editor-in-chief at Nepal Connect. He is a well-known Dutch publisher and writer. Editorial product development is his forte. In his younger years, he was the driving force behind successful niche publications across a wide range of fields, including pop music, private investing, and chess. Later in his career, he ‘recycled’ magazine content as an innovative agent, marketing text and imagery, and wrote numerous magazine articles and several books.
Toet visited Nepal in the early 1980s and has returned some fifty times. He is also a board member of the Dutch Nepal Federation (NFN) and wrote a crime novel set partly in Nepal, The Kathmandu Complot (1982).