Hélène Vletter-van Dort is professor of Financial Law & Governance at Erasmus University in Rotterdam.
She is a member of the NN Group Supervisory Board and has also been the vice-chairman there since 2020.
She is also chairman of the Supervisory Board at Intertrust and a non-executive director and chair of EFIC1 (EFIC1), a special purpose vehicle focused on the fintech sector.
Outside the financial sector, Hélène is, among other things, a member of the NPO's supervisory board.
Previously, she was a supervisor at the British bank Barclays, a member of the Corporate Governance Code Monitoring Committee, and started her career at law firm Clifford Chance and later as a scientist at Utrecht University.
Hélène is 56, married, has adult children and lives mainly in Wassenaar.
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Books that are cited:
'Unidentity' — Amin Maalouf: a book by a French-Lebanese writer and journalist about identity in different cultures. How do we identify ourselves in the groups we are in? That book also has to do with the corporate culture in which you function as an employee or manager.
'Noise' — Daniel Kahneman: a review of errors and how to prevent them. What circumstances, assumptions, and processes have led to known errors in recent corporate history? And how can you counteract the 'noise' of wrong processes?
“What you do is who you are” - Ben Horowitz: a famous venture capitalist who uses history to show leaders how their way of leading can affect the organization — and how they can change their company's culture.
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Terms that are cited:
M&A — mergers and acquisitions, mergers and acquisitions, which require a major commitment from legal specialists who know how to unbundle existing partnerships and tie other ties together.
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Persons cited:
Professor Van Schilf — Law professor, who our guest graduated from and who gave her the incentive to think and publish scientifically.
Huub Willems — President of the Enterprise Chamber.
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