ING nominates Jan Peter Balkenende, Margarete Haase and Hans Wijers as members of the Supervisory Board
16 Mars 2017 - 8:10AM
ING will propose to the 2017 Annual General
Meeting (AGM) on Monday 8 May 2017 to appoint Jan Peter Balkenende,
Margarete Haase and Hans Wijers to the Supervisory Board.
Jan Peter Balkenende (Dutch, 1956) currently is
Professor of Governance, Institutions and Internationalisation at
Erasmus University Rotterdam and an external senior advisor to EY
where he was partner Corporate Responsibility from 2011 until
mid-2016. From 1998 until 2002 he was a member of Parliament of the
Netherlands for the Christian Democratic Alliance (CDA). From 2002
until 2010 he served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands. Jan
Peter Balkenende is among others chairman of the Dutch Sustainable
Growth Coalition, the International Advisory Board Rotterdam and
the Germany-Netherlands Forum. He is also a board member of the
Goldschmeding Foundation. Jan Peter Balkenende holds a PhD in Law
from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and honorary degrees from
universities in Hungary, Japan, Korea, and the USA.
Margarete Haase (Austrian, 1953) currently is
chief financial officer at Deutz AG. She has been a member of
Deutz' Board of Management since 2009. From 1987 until 2009 she
served in various management positions at Daimler-Benz and
DaimlerChrysler - lastly as a Member of the Board at Daimler
Financial Services. She serves as a member of the Supervisory Board
of Fraport AG and ZF Friedrichshafen AG and of the German Corporate
Governance Kodex committee. Margarete Haase holds a master's degree
in Business Administration of Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien.
Hans Wijers (Dutch, 1951) was member of the
Executive Board and CEO of AkzoNobel from 2002 until 2012. He
started his career as an assistant professor and served on two
think tanks for ministers before working as a management consultant
for many years. Between 1994 and 1998 he served as Minister of
Economic Affairs of the Netherlands. From 1999-2002 he was chairman
of the Dutch office and senior partner of the Boston Consulting
Group. Hans Wijers is chairman of the Supervisory Board of Heineken
NV, deputy chairman at Royal Dutch Shell Plc and member of the
Supervisory Board of HAL Investments. Furthermore, he is chairman
of the Supervisory Board of the Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam and
of the Vereniging Natuurmonumenten. Hans Wijers holds a master's
degree in Economics from University of Groningen and a PhD in
Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Upon decision by the AGM, the appointment of Jan
Peter Balkenende will be effective as of the end of the AGM on 8
May 2017. The appointment of Hans Wijers will be effective as of 1
September 2017. In light of a planned reduction of the total number
of her board positions, the appointment of Margarete Haase will
become effective at a later date upon decision of the Supervisory
Board.
It is the intention of the Supervisory Board to
elect Hans Wijers as its chairman to succeed Jeroen van der Veer in
that capacity per the end of the AGM 2018. In order to ensure a
smooth transfer of responsibilities to Hans Wijers, it will be
proposed to the AGM to reappoint Jeroen van der Veer (Dutch, 1947)
as member of the Supervisory Board for a period of one year. Jeroen
van der Veer has been a member of the Supervisory Board since
2009.
It will also be proposed to the AGM to reappoint
Hermann-Josef Lamberti (German, 1956) and Robert Reibestein (Dutch,
1956) for a next period of four years as members of the Supervisory
Board. Messrs Lamberti and Reibestein have been members since 2013.
After completing her four year term since appointment in 2013,
Isabel Martín Castellá will retire from the Supervisory Board at
the end of the AGM 2017, having reached the ING age limit for
Supervisory Board members.
The proposed appointments to the Supervisory Board
have been approved by the European Central Bank. The full details
of all proposed (re)appointments and the composition of the
Supervisory Board will be included in the proxy materials for ING's
2017 AGM on 8 May 2017, which will be published on 23 March
2017.
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