Van Lanschot Kempen appoints Lars Dijkstra as Chief Sustainability Officer
06 Juli 2021 - 8:03AM
Van Lanschot Kempen appoints Lars Dijkstra as Chief Sustainability
Officer
Amsterdam/’s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, 6 July 2021
Van Lanschot Kempen today announced the appointment of Lars
Dijkstra as Chief Sustainability Officer. In this newly created
capacity, Lars Dijkstra will head up the Sustainability Centre and
report directly to the Chairman of the Management Board. The
Sustainability Centre brings together and coordinates all
sustainability activities at Van Lanschot Kempen.
Karl Guha, Chairman of the Management
Board, said: “We are
delighted to appoint Lars as our Chief Sustainability Officer,
with this appointment highlighting our sustainability aspirations
as a wealth manager. Lars’s many years of experience in the
financial markets and his extensive knowledge of sustainability and
corporate responsibility make him eminently suited to help drive
Van Lanschot Kempen’s mission to be a leading sustainable European
wealth manager.”
Sustainability is deeply woven into Van Lanschot Kempen’s
strategy and one of the key pillars of its successful growth
strategy. The company’s aim is to preserve and create wealth, in a
sustainable manner, both for its clients and for the society it
serves. It aims to take an entrepreneurial approach to creating
both financial and non-financial long-term value for all its
stakeholders.
Lars Dijkstra, Chief Sustainability
Officer, commented:
“We’ve been working together with our clients, our internal and
external fund managers as well as our investees for years to
generate both financial returns and sustainable impact. I’m
determined to leverage Van Lanschot Kempen’s influence to achieve
sustainable change across the value chain, taking responsibility
for both our own footprint and that of our clients’
investments.”
Lars Dijkstra has been Van Lanschot Kempen’s Chief Investment
Officer since 2005 and has served as head of Core Investment
Strategies since the beginning of this year. Erik van Houwelingen,
member of the Management Board and Chairman of Kempen Capital
Management’s management board, will assume Dijkstra’s current
duties.
In addition to his position at Van Lanschot Kempen, Lars
Dijkstra serves as the Treasurer of Eumedion which represents the
interests of institutional investors in the field of corporate
governance and sustainability, and is a member of The 300 Club, an
international group of leading investment professionals raising
awareness about the impact of current market thinking and
behaviours. He has also been closely involved with FCLTGlobal since
its inception, a not-for-profit organisation driving long-term
value creation for companies, savers and communities.
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About Van Lanschot Kempen Van Lanschot Kempen,
a wealth manager operating under the Van Lanschot, Kempen and Evi
brand names, is active in Private Banking, Asset Management and
Merchant Banking, with the aim of preserving and creating wealth,
in a sustainable way, for both its clients and the society of which
it is part. Listed at Euronext Amsterdam, Van Lanschot Kempen is
the Netherlands’ oldest independent financial services company,
with a history dating back to 1737.
For more information, please visit vanlanschotkempen.com
DisclaimerThis press release does not
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acquisition in any other way or subscription to any financial
instrument and is not a recommendation to perform or refrain from
performing any action.
This press release is a translation of the Dutch language
original and is provided as a courtesy only. In the event of any
disparities, the Dutch language version will prevail. No rights can
be derived from any translation thereof.
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