Miriam Maes has been appointed to the Supervisory Board of the Port of Rotterdam Authority as of January 1, 2016, filling the position that fell vacant after Merel Vroonhoven stepped down from the Board on July 1, 2015.
Maes has extensive international experience in a variety of operational management positions at Unilever, ICI, Texas Utilities and EDF.
After mostly working in the food industry for the first twenty years of her career, over the past decade, the main focus of Maes’s activities has shifted towards the energy sector and climate change. Among other roles, Maes has served as delivery adviser to the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) in the U.K. and Senior Fellow of the Climate and Energy Programme of the trans-Atlantic think tank German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). She is also the founder and CEO of the energy and climate change consultancy Foresee (established 2007), as well as a member of the London Sustainable Development Commission, which advises the Greater London Authority on how to set a strong example in the field of sustainability.
Maes is a Dutch national and lives in London. She is a graduate of Nyenrode Business University. Maes is Chair of the Supervisory Board of the listed BEL 20 firm Elia Group (Belgium), as well as serving on the supervisory boards of Urenco (U.K.), Ultra Centrifuge Netherlands (Netherlands), Vilmorin & Cie (France), Assystem (France), and Naturex (France).