Jeroen van der Veer

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Jeroen van der Veer
Erasmus University Rotterdam
OccupationBusinessman
TitleFormer chairman, Philips
SpouseMariette
Children3

Jeroen van der Veer (born 27 October 1947) is a Dutch businessman. He was the chairman of

Royal Dutch Shell.[2]

Education

Van der Veer graduated in 1971 from the

Erasmus University Rotterdam. In 2005, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Port Harcourt
in Nigeria.

Career

Van der Veer joined Shell in 1971 and worked in manufacturing and marketing in the Netherlands, Curaçao and the United Kingdom. In March 2007 it was announced that Mr. van der Veer's contract as CEO would be extended to June 2009 some twenty months beyond his normal retirement date of October 2007.[4] He was the first executive director of Shell to stay in office beyond the age of 60. He retired as chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell June 2009, and remains on the board of directors. He also is a non-executive director of Unilever[5] and chairman of Platform Bèta Techniek (which organized the 2010 Science & Technology Summit in The Hague, which had Neil Armstrong and Steve Wozniak as keynote speakers, an event which Van der Veer headlined).

In 2009, Van der Veer was appointed a member of the supervisory board of Philips. In May 2021, Van der Veer was succeeded by Feike Sijbesma as chairman of the supervisory board of Philips.[6]

In October 2015, van der Veer was appointed honorary global chairman of London Speaker Bureau, with whom he is also a speaker.[7] In May 2019, van der Veer was appointed as a member in the board of directors of Prorsum, a Swiss sustainable investment advisor.[8]

Personal life

van der Veer is married to Mariette and has three daughters.

Honours

A Royal honour was conferred upon van der Veer to mark his retirement in 2009. He has been appointed by the Queen of the Netherlands as a Commander in the

S.R. Nathan at a ceremony held in Singapore on 25 February 2010.[9]
The Honorary Citizen Award is the highest form of recognition for outstanding contributions to the country's growth and development.

References

  1. ^ "Supervisory Board - Our management - Company - About". Philips.
  2. ^ Bio at Shell public website March 4, 2009. at archive.org. Accessed 18-12-2020.
  3. ^ "Jeroen van der Veer: Een tikje tegendraads," in FEM Business, nr. 6, 2001.
  4. ^ "Retirement announcement". Archived from the original on 2012-02-07. Retrieved 2020-02-21.
  5. ^ Biographies of Simon Henry, Lord Kerr of Kinlochard GCMG, Wim Kok, Nick Land, Jorma Ollila, Jeroen van der Veer and Hans Wijers[permanent dead link]. Retrieved 14 July 2009.
  6. ^ "Oud-DSM-baas Sijbesma nieuwe president-commissaris van Philips" [Former DSM boss Sijbesma new chairman of Philips]. De Telegraaf (in Dutch). 23 February 2021.
  7. ^ "London Speaker Bureau". Archived from the original on 2015-11-08.
  8. ^ "Neues Verwaltungsratsmitglied beim institutionellen Berater Prorsum". www.institutional-money.com.
  9. ^ "Singapore Confers Prestigious Honorary Citizen Award on Retired chief executive of Shell". Archived from the original on 2010-02-28. Retrieved 2010-03-02.

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Business positions
Preceded by Chairman of the Committee of Managing Directors
of
Royal Dutch Shell

2004–2005
Succeeded by
position of CEO of Royal Dutch Shell created
Preceded by
position of CEO of Royal Dutch Shell created
Chief Executive Officer of
Royal Dutch Shell

2005–2009
Succeeded by
Preceded by President-Director of
Royal Dutch Petroleum Company

2000–2005
Succeeded by
Position dissolved July 2005
responsibilities split between
CEO
Royal Dutch Shell:
Aad Jacobs