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Jurjan Wouda Kuipers

Independent Director

Jurjan Wouda Kuipers is one of our independent directors. Before his appointment as an independent director, Mr. Wouda Kuipers spent 22 years at Ernst & Young (EY) in New York. From 2017 until his retirement in July 2020, Mr. Wouda Kuipers was EY’s Senior International Tax Partner heading the Financial Services Offices’ Tax Desks, and his previous work experience includes the following positions as: Associate General Tax Counsel at Unilever and Associate at tax law firm Loyens & Volkmaars. For the past twenty two years, Mr. Wouda Kuipers has served on the board of the Netherland-America Foundation (NAF) and now he is the Chairman of the NAF. Mr. Wouda Kuipers holds three master of law degrees (University of Amsterdam, Taxation, 1991; Erasmus University Rotterdam, Corporate Law, Civil Law, 1987).