Alexander Rinnooy Kan

Alexander Rinnooy Kan
Rinnooy Kan in 2011
Member of the Senate
In office
9 June 2015 – 11 June 2019
Chairman of the
Social and Economic Council
In office
1 April 2006 – 1 September 2012
Preceded byHerman Wijffels
Succeeded byWiebe Draijer
Member of the
Social and Economic Council
In office
1 January 1991 – 1 August 1996
ChairmanTheo Quené
Klaas de Vries
Personal details
Born
Alexander Hendrik George Rinnooy Kan

(1949-10-05) 5 October 1949 (age 75)
Scheveningen, Netherlands
Political partyDemocrats 66 (since 1980)
Residence(s)Aerdenhout, Netherlands
Alma materUniversity of Amsterdam
(BSc, PhD)
Leiden University
(MSc)
OccupationPolitician · Civil servant · Economist · Mathematician · Researcher · Businessman · Corporate director · Nonprofit director · Academic administrator · Trade association executive · Author · Professor

Alexander Hendrik George Rinnooy Kan (born 5 October 1949) is a Dutch politician, businessman and mathematician who served as Chairman of the Social and Economic Council from 2006 to 2012. A member of the Democrats 66 (D66) party, he was a member of the Senate from 2015 to 2019 and is a distinguished professor of Economics and Business Studies at the University of Amsterdam since 1 September 2012. He has also been president of the supervisory board of EYE Film Institute Netherlands since 2008 and of Museum Boerhaave since 2018.