Advisory board

Background and task/goal

The faculty board has appointed an advisory board. The faculty board wants to get regular advice from its stakeholders regarding its objectives and strategy.

For the composition of the advisory board, the faculty board approached representatives of (international) trade and industry, government, secondary education (as a supplier) and the university community. Their knowledge and experience can excellently support the faculty and advise regarding its mission and strategy.

Members

The advisory board consists of the following members:

• Helmie Botter  (Manager Business Development Hydrogen, Gasunie)
• Klaas Jan Hutten (CFO Mobacc Groep)
• Remco Kouwenhoven (Director Alumni relations and Fundraising, Director Ubbo Emmius Fonds, University of Groningen)
• Katja Loos (Professor of Macromolecular Chemistry and New Polymeric Materials at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen)
• Philip Powell (Professor of Information Management at FEB, University of Groningen; Director at Business School for the Creative Industries at the University for the Creative Arts)
• Onno Benninga (Director, Google Benelux, alumnus)
• Harry Dekker (Media director, Unilever Benelux, alumnus)
• Japhet Law (Emeritus professor, Chinese University of Hongkong)
• Mary Jo Bitner (Emeritus professor of Marketing, Arizona State University)
• Per Baltzer Overgaard (Vice dean, Aarhus Business and Social Sciences)
• Willem Hein (General director, BeljonWesterterp)
• Carola Bos (Vice President Consulting Services)
• Ann Vereecke (Professor and partner at Vlerick Business School and professor at Ghent University)
• Keld Laursen (Professor of the Economics and Management of Innovation at Copenhagen Business School and DNV-GL Professor II at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU)
• Robert C. Feenstra (holds the C. Bryan Cameron Distinguished Chair in International Economics at the University of California, Davis)
• Ingrid Woolard (Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
• Bernd Skiera (Professor for Electronic Commerce, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Department of Marketing, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
• Roel Scheepens (Rector Maartenscollege and International School Groningen)