Biography of Mr. Nout Wellink
 
     
 

Mr. Wellink has served as Independent Non-executive Director of the Bank since December 2018. Previously, he servedas the Treasurer General in the Dutch Ministry of Finance, member of the Executive Board and the President of the Dutch Central Bank, member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank, member of the Group of Ten Central Bank Governors and Governor of the International Monetary Fund, member and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements, Chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, Independent Director of Bank of China Limited, Vice Chairman of Supervisory Board of PricewaterhouseCoopers Accountants N.V. and an Emeritus Professor at the Free University in Amsterdam. Mr. Wellink also served as member of the supervisory board of a bank, a reinsurance company and other enterprises on behalf of the Dutch authorities, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of the Netherlands Open Air Museum, member and treasurer of the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis and the Westeinde Hospital in The Hague.He was awarded a Knighthood in the Order of the Netherlands Lion in 1980 and is Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau since 2011. He received a Master’s degree in Law from Leiden University, a Doctorate degree in Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam and an Honorary Doctorate from Tilburg University.