{"id":29,"date":"2013-09-25T21:03:45","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T19:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.websitexpress.nl\/vdmeer\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2015-03-29T19:28:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T17:28:49","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vdmeer.net\/?page_id=29","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdmeer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/RvdM.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vdmeer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/RvdM.gif\" alt=\"Prof. dr Robert van der Meer\" width=\"82\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Born in 1949 in Utrecht, the Netherlands, Robert van der Meer holds a degree in Quantitative Business Economics, is a Dutch CPA (RA) and has a Ph.D. in Economics of the Erasmus University Rotterdam.<\/p>\n<p>Robert van der Meer is since 1989 Professor of Finance at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and Professor emeritus beginning 2015.<\/p>\n<p>His business career started in 1972 with Pakhoed (international storage and transport, now known as VOPAK) in the Netherlands and from 1976 until 1989 he worked with <strong>Royal Dutch\/Shell<\/strong> in several positions in the Netherlands and abroad. During this period, he was also Managing Director of Investments of the\u00a0Shell Pension Fund.<\/p>\n<p>From 1989 until 1995 Robert van der Meer was with <strong>AEGON<\/strong> as a member of the Executive Board, responsible for Investments and Treasury.<\/p>\n<p>From 1995 until 2002 he was with Fortis, first as a member of the executive board of <strong>Fortis<\/strong> Amev NV and from January 1999 as a member of the Executive committee of Fortis Insurance Holding NV. In this board he was responsible for Investment Policy of the Fortis Insurance companies.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2002 he is an independent advisor and holds a number of non-executive board memberships or advisory positions with investment companies, pension funds, real estate management companies, insurance and ICT companies. In addition he is a board member of some professional bodies and charity organizations. And a member (Raad-plv) of the Enterprise Chamber (Ondernemingskamer) at the Amsterdam Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in 1949 in Utrecht, the Netherlands, Robert van der Meer holds a degree in Quantitative Business Economics, is a Dutch CPA (RA) and has a Ph.D. in Economics of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Robert van der Meer is since 1989 Professor of Finance at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and Professor emeritus beginning 2015. His business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vdmeer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vdmeer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vdmeer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vdmeer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vdmeer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.vdmeer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/www.vdmeer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vdmeer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}