Corporate Governance Code Monitoring Committee

 

On the 6th of December 2004, the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Justice and the State Secretary of Economic Affairs installed the Corporate Governance Code Monitoring Committee.

 

The Monitoring Committee's terms of reference are:

- to monitor the operation of the Dutch Corporate Governance Code and its implementation by listed companies and shareholders;

- to keep under review national and international developments in corporate governance generally, reflecting the Monitoring Committee's objective of promoting the use and topicality of the Code;

- to indicate whether there is any gap or indistinctness in the Code.

 


Composition of the Monitoring Committee

Chairman

 

Professor Jean Frijns

Professor of Investments at the Vrije University of Amsterdam

Former asset management director and member of the board of the ABP Pension Fund

 

Members

 

Professor Kees Cools RA

Professor of corporate financing and strategy at the University of Groningen

Partner in The Boston Consulting Group

 

Gert-Jan Kramer 

Former president of Fugro NV

Various non-executive directorships

 

Professor Jaap van Manen RA
Professor of Auditing at the University of Groningen

Partner PricewaterhouseCoopers Accountants NV

 

Roderick Munsters

Director Asset Management APG N.V.

Chairman of Eumedion

 

Ms Kitty Roozemond
Director of the Association of Provincial Authorities

Former vice-chair of the Federation of Netherlands Trade Unions (FNV)

 

Jos Streppel

Member of the Management Board and Chief Financial Officer, Aegon NV

Member of the Supervisory Board of KPN NV

Member of the Supervisory Board of Van Lanschot NV

Chairman of the Shareholders Communication Channel Foundation

 

Professor Albert Verdam

Professor of company law at the Vrije University of Amsterdam

Legal adviser to Royal Philips Electronics NV

 

Advisor

 

Sven Dumoulin

Group Secretary Unilever 

 

Secretariat

 

Wouter Kuijpers

Financial Markets Directorate, Ministry of Finance

 

Ms Martha Meinema 

Enterprise Directorate, Ministry of Economic Affairs