Wijnand P. Donkers
Supervisory Board Member
Administration
Brenntag AG
Germany
Biography
Wijnand P. Donkers, born on October 24, 1962 in Oss, the Netherlands, works as management consultant since 2014 and has been a senior adviser, from 2015 until 2017 to Petrus Advisers Ltd, London, United Kingdom. Furthermore, he is a managing director and shareholder of Horizon D. UG, Düsseldorf, since 2012. Between 2007 and 2012 he was Chief Executive Officer at Deutsche Annington SE, Düsseldorf. From 1985 to 2007 he worked globally in various positions in the chemicals and the integrated trading division of the BP Group. His last position there was managing director of BP Gas Marketing Ltd. Mr Donkers studied at Nijenrode Business Universiteit, at Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, at the Erasmus University, as well as at Harvard Business School. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration, a Master of Business Administration and has a Diploma of International Affairs. Furthermore he completed several postgraduate training programmes at Stanford University, Kellogg School of Management and Cambridge University. Mr. Donkers has been a member of the Supervisory Board since June 8, 2017 and is currently a member of the Presiding and Nomination Committee. Mr Donkers is not a member of other supervisory boards to be established under applicable law or a member of comparable domestic and foreign control bodies of commercial enterprises.
Research Interest
Chemical Engineering