Van der Veer Elected to Statoil Board
Jeroen van der Veer was the Chief Executive Officer at Royal Dutch Shell (Photo: Shell)
In a meeting in the Corporate Assembly of Statoil ASA on 17 March 2016, Jeroen van der Veer was elected as a new member of Statoil's board of directors.
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. Van der Veer is inter alia the chair of the supervisory boards of ING Bank NV and Royal Philips Electronics and member of the supervisory board of Boskalis Westminster Groep NV, and has significant competence within corporate governance.
The election enters into effect from 18 March 2016 and until the ordinary election of shareholder-elected members to the board of directors in 2017. Jeroen van der Veer was elected in accordance with the proposal from the nomination committee.
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