Robert J. Routs

Biography

  Chairman of the Supervisory Board; Chairman of the Nomination and Governance Committee; and member of the Remuneration Committee. Robert J. Routs is a former Executive Director for Downstream at the energy company Royal Dutch Shell. He was appointed to Aegon's Supervisory Board in April 2008 and became Chairman in April 2010. Mr. Routs was reappointed as a member of the Supervisory Board during the 2016 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders and his third and final term ends in 2020. Mr. Routs is chairman of the Supervisory Board Nomination and Governance Committee and a member of the Supervisory Board Remuneration Committee. Mr. Routs is also chairman of the Supervisory Board of Royal DSM N.V. and sits on the Board of Directors of ATCO Ltd., A.P. Møller-Mærsk A/S and AECOM Technology Corporation. He is a former non-executive director at UPM and former vice chairman of the Supervisory Board of Royal KPN N.V. He has held no other board memberships in the past five years.

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