Ms Van Wijk has more than 30 years’ management experience in the financial sector. From January 2018 until March 2020 she was Global Head of Responsible Business & Public Affairs at Aegon AM. Prior to that, she was CEO of TKP Investments BV for more than eleven years; for the first five years at TKP, she also served as a member of the board of TKP Pensioen BV. Before joining TKP (part of Aegon), she held numerous senior investment and management positions, including at Actiam, Philips pension fund and PGGM and amongst other a non-executive board position at the Dutch Railway pension fund. From 2014 to 2020 she has also served as a board member of the Dutch Fund and Asset Management Association, of which she was chair in the last two years. She played an important role in establishing the climate commitment of the entire Dutch financial sector to the Cabinet’s climate goals in 2019. She was chair of the Investment Leaders Group at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership until October 2019. She holds independent supervisory roles at various organizations in the fields of culture, pensions, public housing, convenience retail and legal protection.