Dr van der Geest occasionally but selectively engages with the Media.

For instance, he launched the World Economic and Social Survey 2013 at the UN, New York and presented the impact of financial crisis on LDC trade performance (2009-10) to  global media at Palais des Nations, UN, Geneva.

He has been a commentator on BBC World, UN Radio, BBC World Service radio, Deutsche Welle radio, Radio Netherlands.

He was interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, News Week, China Youth Daily, Straits Times, BBC World Service, Euronews, CCTV-9 and others. 

He has moved away from the legacy Media in today’s polarised world with its toxic international politics.