Roelie van Wijk

Ms van Wijk is an experienced board Chair, Non-Executive Director and CEO who has extensive experience of working in the financial sector with a range of stakeholders. She has global experience at leading companies and associations, in both executive and non-executive roles. Next to Brunel, she currently holds non-executive board positions at the largest Dutch pension fund, ABP,  and at SVn, a company working to improve the built environment on behalf of Dutch municipalities and provinces. She recently held the same positions at a Dutch residential and retail investor, and at two museums. She was also Chair of the Supervisory Board for all deans at the Dutch Bar association.

She gained extensive experience at Aegon from 2006 to 2020. For example, for almost twelve years she was CEO of TKP Investments BV, an independent fiduciary investment subsidiary. Before joining Aegon, she held numerous senior investment and management positions, including at Philips, PGGM and ABN Amro. From 2014 to 2020, she served as a board member of the Dutch Fund and Asset Management Association, holding the position of Chair in her last two years on the board. She was Chair of the Investment Leaders Group at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership until October 2019. At Brunel, she is member of the Investment Oversight Committee and Chair of the Remuneration Committee.