Supervisory Board

DSM's Supervisory Board consists of:

• First appointed: 2000. End of current term: 2008.
• Position: retired; last position held: President of Koninklijke Nederlandsche Petroleum Maatschappij N.V. and Chairman of the Committee of Managing Directors of Royal Dutch/Shell Group.
• Nationality: Dutch.
• Supervisory directorships and other positions held: chairman of the Supervisory Board of the ING Group, chairman of the Advisory Committee on the Listing and Issuing Rules of Euronext Amsterdam N.V., trustee of the International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation (IASCF), professor of International Management at the University of Amsterdam, chairman of the Social Advisory Council of the Tinbergen Institute, member of the Advisory Council of Robert Bosch.

• First appointed: 1996. End of current term: 2008.
• Position: retired; last position held: Executive Vice President of Philips Electronics N.V.
• Nationality: Dutch.
• Supervisory directorships and other positions held: member of the Supervisory Boards of ASM Lithography N.V., Neopost SA and Delft Instruments N.V.

• First appointed: 1998. End of current term: 2010.
• Position: member of the Executive Committee of Air France.
• Nationality: Dutch.
• Supervisory directorships and other positions held: member of the Supervisory Boards of Transavia CV, Mercurius Group Wormerveer B.V. and Coöperatieve Vereniging Verenigde Bloemenveiling Aalsmeer B.A., member of the management committee of the Confederation of Netherlands Industry and Employers (VNONCW); chairman of the Dutch Employers’ Association (AWVN).

• First appointed: 2004. End of current term: 2008.
• Position: retired; last position held: Chairman of the Managing Board of the ING Group.
• Nationality: Dutch.
• Supervisory directorships and other positions held: member of the Supervisory Boards of De Nederlandsche Bank N.V., Philips Electronics N.V. and Moody’s Investor Services, member of the Board of Governors of the Peace Palace in The Hague (Netherlands).

• First appointed: 2005. End of current term: 2009
• Position: Chairman of the Board of Directors of Devgen N.V., chairman of the Executive Committee and member of the Board of Directors of Unibioscreen S.A. and member of the Board of Directors of Oncomethylome S.A.
• Nationality: Swiss.
• Supervisory directorships and other positions held: Venture Partner of Polytechnos Venture-Partners GmbH.

• First appointed: 2005. End of current term: 2009.
• Position: retired; last position held: Chairman of the Managing Board of Celanese.
• Nationality: Brazilian and German.
• Supervisory directorships and other positions held: member of the Supervisory Boards of Companhia Suzano de Papel e Celulose S.A. (Brazil), Suzano Petroquimica S.A. (Brazil), RBS-Media Group (Brazil), Cyrela Brazil Reatty S.A. (Brazil), Hospital Albert Einstein (Brazil) and member of the Board of the Ibero-America Association, Hamburg (Germany).

• First appointed: 2006. End of current term: 2010
• Position: retired; last position held: Chief Financial Officer ABN AMRO
• Nationality: Dutch
• Supervisory directorships and other positions held: member of the Board of Directors of Saudi Hollandi Bank, Chairman of the Board of the Netherlands Opera, the Muziektheater , non-executive director on the Board of Glaxo Smith Kline London, Board member of the Financial Services Authority , Board member of Zurich Financial Services, Board member of Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and member of the Supervisory Board Hendrick de Keyser.

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