Our Supervisory Board
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Nils Smedegaard Andersen
(1958, Danish) Chairman
Initial appointment: 2018
Current term of office: 2018-2022
Member of the Board of Directors Unilever N.V. and Unilever plc. and BP plc.;
Former CEO of A.P. Moller - Maersk A/S;
Former CEO and President of Carlsberg A/S.
Peggy Bruzelius
(1949, Swedish)
Initial appointment: 2007
Current term of office: 2015-2019
Non-executive Director of Lundin Petroleum AB and Skandia Mutual Life Insurance;
Chairman of Lancelot Asset Management A.B.;
Former CEO of ABB Financial Services;
Former Executive Vice-President of SEB;
Former non-executive Director of Diageo plc.
Sue Clark
(1964, British)
Initial appointment: 2017
Current term of office: 2017-2021
Non-executive Director of Britvic plc., Bakkavor Group plc., Tulchan Communications LLP and Imperial Brands plc.;
Former Managing Director Europe SABMiller plc.;
Former Director of Corporate Affairs Railtrack plc. and Scottish Power plc.
Byron E. Grote
(1948, American and British) Vice-Chairman
Initial appointment: 2014
Current term of office: 2018-2022
Non-executive Director of Anglo-American plc., Standard Chartered plc. and Tesco plc.;
Former non-executive Director of Unilever N.V. and Unilever plc.;
Former Board member BP plc.
Michiel Jaski
(1959, Dutch)
Initial appointment: 2017
Current term of office: 2017-2021
Member of the Supervisory Board of Synbra Holding B.V.;
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of UNICA Group B.V.;
Former CEO of OFFICEFIRST Immobilien A.G. and Grontmij N.V.;
Former member of the Executive Board of ARCADIS N.V.;
Former VP at Shell.
Pamela Kirby
(1953, British)
Initial appointment: 2016
Current term of office: 2016-2020
Non-executive Director at Reckitt Benckiser plc., Hikma Pharmaceuticals plc. and DCC plc.;
Senior Independent Director at Victrex plc.
Dick Sluimers
(1953, Dutch)
Initial appointment: 2015
Current term of office: 2015-2019
Member of the Supervisory Boards of Atradius N.V., NIBC Bank N.V. and Euronext N.V.;
Member of the Board of Directors of FWD Group Limited;
Trustee of the Erasmus University Trust;
Member of the Board of Governors of the State Academy of Finance and Economics;
Former CEO of APG Group.
Patrick Thomas
(1957, British)
Initial appointment: 2017
Current term of office: 2017-2021
Chairman of Johnson Matthey plc.;
Former Chairman and CEO of Covestro A.G. and Bayer MaterialScience A.G.;
Former non-executive Director of BG Group plc.;
Former President of Specialties, Huntsman International LLC;
Former CEO Polyurethanes division of ICI plc.
Ben Verwaayen
(1952, Dutch)
Initial appointment: 2012
Current term of office: 2016-2020
Non-executive Director of Akamai Technologies Inc. and Bharti Airtel Ltd. (until December 31, 2018);
Non-executive Director of Ofcom;
Former CEO of Alcatel-Lucent;
Former Chief Executive/Chairman of the Board’s Operating Committee of BT Group.