Ferdinand Verdonck
Supervisory Board
Affimed
Germany
Biography
Ferdinand Verdonck has been a member of Affimed’s Supervisory Board since July 2014. He is a Director and member of the Audit Committee of Virtus Funds and member of the Board of Laco Information Services. In recent years he was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of uniQure N.V., a member of the Board of Group SNEF and of J.P. Morgan European Investment Trust and a member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Audit Committee of two biotechnology companies in Belgium, Movetis and Galapagos. He has previously served as Chairman of Banco Urquijo and of Nasdaq Europe and as a Director of Dictaphone Corporation. From 1992 to 2003, he was the Managing Director of Almanij NV, a financial services company which has since merged with KBC, and his responsibilities included company strategy, financial control, supervision of executive management and corporate governance, including board participation in publicly-traded and privately-held companies in many countries. Mr. Verdonck holds a law degree from KU Leuven and degrees in economics from KU Leuven and the University of Chicago.
Research Interest
Economics