ING nominates Jan Peter Balkenende, Margarete Haase and Hans Wijers as members of the Supervisory Board

ING will propose to the 2017 Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Monday 8 May 2017 to appoint Jan Peter Balkenende, Margarete Haase and Hans Wijers to the Supervisory Board.

Jan Peter Balkenende (Dutch, 1956) currently is Professor of Governance, Institutions and Internationalisation at Erasmus University Rotterdam and an external senior advisor to EY where he was partner Corporate Responsibility from 2011 until mid-2016. From 1998 until 2002 he was a member of Parliament of the Netherlands for the Christian Democratic Alliance (CDA). From 2002 until 2010 he served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands. Jan Peter Balkenende is among others chairman of the Dutch Sustainable Growth Coalition, the International Advisory Board Rotterdam and the Germany-Netherlands Forum. He is also a board member of the Goldschmeding Foundation. Jan Peter Balkenende holds a PhD in Law from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and honorary degrees from universities in Hungary, Japan, Korea, and the USA.

Margarete Haase (Austrian, 1953) currently is chief financial officer at Deutz AG. She has been a member of Deutz' Board of Management since 2009. From 1987 until 2009 she served in various management positions at Daimler-Benz and DaimlerChrysler - lastly as a Member of the Board at Daimler Financial Services. She serves as a member of the Supervisory Board of Fraport AG and ZF Friedrichshafen AG and of the German Corporate Governance Kodex committee. Margarete Haase holds a master's degree in Business Administration of Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien.

Hans Wijers (Dutch, 1951) was member of the Executive Board and CEO of AkzoNobel from 2002 until 2012. He started his career as an assistant professor and served on two think tanks for ministers before working as a management consultant for many years. Between 1994 and 1998 he served as Minister of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands. From 1999-2002 he was chairman of the Dutch office and senior partner of the Boston Consulting Group. Hans Wijers is chairman of the Supervisory Board of Heineken NV, deputy chairman at Royal Dutch Shell Plc and member of the Supervisory Board of HAL Investments. Furthermore, he is chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam and of the Vereniging Natuurmonumenten. Hans Wijers holds a master's degree in Economics from University of Groningen and a PhD in Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam.