ABN AMRO has appointed Jeroen Kremers as Corporate Executive Vice President and Head of Public Affairs from 1 May 2007. In this newly created role, he will be responsible for ABN AMRO’s engagement with economic, political, social and environmental arenas at the regional, national and global level.
Kremers will direct ABN AMRO’s Economic Research, Sector Research, Government Affairs, Emerging Markets and Multilateral Organisations and Sustainability departments and represent ABN AMRO in key public forums worldwide. He will act as advisor to the Chairman and the members of the Managing Board, and report to Hugh Scott-Barrett, Chief Financial Officer and member of the Managing Board.
For the last four years, Kremers (48), a Dutch national, has been Executive Director for a constituency of 12 European countries on the Board of the IMF in Washington DC. Before that he was Deputy Treasurer General and Director for Financial Markets at the Netherlands Finance Ministry, where he implemented financial supervision reform for the Netherlands.
He contributed to financial sector policymaking at the European level in the EU banking, insurance, and securities committees and was Deputy Chairman of the OECD Committee for Financial Markets. Kremers was visiting Professor of Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam in 1991-2003 and currently serves as Chairman of the Board of the Tinbergen Institute in Rotterdam/Amsterdam, one of Europe’s top graduate and research schools in economics.