Alexander Rinnooy Kan

Dr. Alexander Rinnooy Kan was born in the Netherlands. He is married and has three children. Rinnooy Kan has degrees in Mathematics from Leiden University and Econometrics from Amsterdam University.

He was employed as mathematics editor at the Spectrum Encyclopaedia for the period of a year, and at the University of Delft for three years. In 1977 he moved to Erasmus University in Rotterdam, where he became a professor in operational research in 1980, Director of the Econometric Institute in 1983 and Rector Magnificus in 1986. In the meantime he was also visiting professor at Berkeley, California and MIT, Boston, among others.

In 1991 he became Chairman of the Confederation of Dutch Industry VNO, which became VNO-NCW in 1995, Mr. Rinnooy Kan joined the Executive Board of ING and became Chairman of the Board of both ING Insurance Central Europe and ING Insurance & Asset Management Asia/Pacific. He held these positions until June 2006.

As of August 2006 he is Chairman of the Social-Economic Council (SER).