Jeroen van der Veer (born October 27, 1947 in Utrecht, Netherlands) is the CEO of
oil company Royal Dutch Shell.
Van der Veer joined Shell in 1971 where
he worked in manufacturing and marketing in the Netherlands, Curaçao and the
United Kingdom.
Van der Veer graduated in 1971 from Delft University
with a MSc in mechanical engineering and went on to earn an MSc in economics
from Erasmus University Rotterdam. In 2005 he was awarded an honorary doctorate
from the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria.
He is a non-executive
director of Unilever, married to Mariette and has three daughters.
In
March 2007 it was announced that Mr. van der Veer's contract as CEO would
be extended to June 2009 some twenty months beyond his normal Shell retirement
date of October 2007. He will be the first modern executive director of Shell
to stay in office beyond the age of 60. |
