Jeroen Van Der Veer
Board member
Management
Statoil
Norway
Biography
Term of office: Member of the Board of Statoil ASA from 18 March 2016 and chair of the Board's Audit Committee from 26 October 2016. Year of birth: 1947 Independent: Yes Other directorships: van der Veer is the chair of the Supervisory Boards of ING Bank NV and Royal Philips Electronics, chair of the Supervisory Council of Technical University of Delft and Platform Beta Techniek, chair of the Advisory Board of the Rotterdam Climate Initiative, as well as a board member in Boskalis Westminster Groep NV and Het Concertgebouw. Number of shares in Statoil ASA: None (as of December 31, 2016) Loans in Statoil: None Experience: Van der Veer was the Chief Executive Officer in the international oil and gas company Royal Dutch Shell Plc (Shell) in the period 2004 to 2009, when he retired. Van der Veer thereafter continued as a non-executive director on the Board of Shell until 2013. He started to work for Shell in 1971 and has experience within all sectors of the business and has significant competence within corporate governance. Education: van der Veer has a degree in Mechanical Engineering (MSc) from Delft University of Technology, Netherlands and a degree in Economics (MSc) from Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Since 2005 he holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Family relations: No family relations to other members of the Board, members of the Corporate Executive Committee or the Corporate Assembly. Other: van der Veer is a Dutch citizen and lives in the Netherlands.
Research Interest
Economics