Biography:Alexander Rinnooy Kan

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Alexander Rinnooy Kan
Alexander Rinnooy Kan - 2011.jpg
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 74)
Scheveningen, Netherlands
NationalityDutch
Political partyDemocrats 66 (since 1980)
ResidenceAerdenhout, 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.

Biography

Early life and education

Rinnooy Kan grew up in The Hague. He graduated with a doctorandus degree (eq. to MSc) in mathematics at Leiden University in 1972. The same year, he also obtained a candidate degree (eq. to BSc) in econometrics from the University of Amsterdam. In 1972–1973, he worked as a mathematician at Spectrum Encyclopedia. From 1973 until 1977, he was a scientific employee in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Delft University of Technology (then called the Delft Technical College). In 1976, he obtained a PhD in mathematics at the University of Amsterdam; he was advised by Gijsbert de Leve.[1]

Private career

In 1977, he went to the Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he became a full Professor in Operations Research in 1980 at the age of 30. In 1983, he was appointed head of the Econometric Institute and in 1986 rector magnificus of the university. In the meantime, he was visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley and MIT, among others.[2]

From 1991 until 1996, he was president of the employers federation VNO and (after the merger with NCW) of the VNO-NCW.[2] Between 1996 and 2006, Rinnooy Kan was a member of the board of directors of ING Group, where he was responsible for the Asian branch. He was a member of the Netherlands Innovation Platform until the platform was dissolved in 2010.

Social Economic Council

From 2006 until 2012, he was a crown-appointed member and Chairman of the Social and Economic Council (SER). He was succeeded in this position by Wiebe Draijer. During his farewell party at the SER he was appointed Commander in the Order of the Netherlands Lion.[3] The Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant named him the most influential person in the Netherlands in 2007, 2008 and 2009.[4]

Senate

On 9 June 2015, he became a member of the Senate on behalf of the Democrats 66 party. He did not seek reelection to the upper chamber in 2019; his term ended on 11 June 2019.

Publications

Books

  • 1985 The Traveling Salesman Problem: A Guided Tour of Combinatorial Optimization. With Eugene L. Lawler, Jan Karel Lenstra, and David B. Shmoys. John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY.
  • 1993, Logistics of Production and Inventory. Vol. 4. with Stephen C. Graves, and Paul Herbert Zipkin, eds.

Selected articles

  • Byrd, R. H., Dert, C. L., Rinnooy Kan, A. H. G., & Schnabel, R. B. (1990). "Concurrent Stochastic Methods for Global Optimization". Mathematical Programming, 46(1-3), 1-29.
  • Lenstra, A. K., A. H. G. Rinnooy Kan, and Alexander Schrijver. "History of Mathematical Programming: A Collection of Personal Reminiscences." (1991).
  • Bastian, Cock, and Alexander H. G. Rinnooy Kan. "The Stochastic Vehicle Routing Problem Revisited." European Journal of Operational Research 56.3 (1992): 407–412.
  • Flippo, O. E., & Rinnooy Kan, A. H. G. (1993). "Decomposition in General Mathematical Programming". Mathematical Programming, 60(1-3), 361–382.
  • Lawler, Eugene L., J. K. Lenstra, A. H. G. Rinnooy Kan, and D.B. Shmoys . "Sequencing and Scheduling: Algorithms and Complexity." Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science 4 (1993): 445–522.

Decorations

Honours
Ribbon bar Honour Country Date
Order of the Netherlands Lion ribbon - Commander.svg Commander of the Order of the Netherlands Lion Netherlands 1 September 2012
Order of the British Empire (Civil) Ribbon.svg Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire United Kingdom 2018[5]

References

External links

Official
Civic offices
Preceded by
Herman Wijffels
Chairman of the Social
and Economic Council

2006–2012
Succeeded by
Wiebe Draijer
Preceded by
Fokko van Duyne
Chairman of the
Supervisory board of the
Central Bank of the Netherlands

2012–2015
Succeeded by
Wim Kuijken
Business positions
Preceded by
Koos Andriessen
Chairman of the
Industry and Employers confederation

1991–1996
Succeeded by
Hans Blankert
Non-profit organization positions
Preceded by
Chairman of the
Concertgebouw Foundation

2003–2015
Succeeded by
Hans Wijers
Chairman of the
EYE Film Institute
Netherlands

2008–present
Incumbent
Preceded by
Douwe Breimer
Chairman of
Museum Boerhaave

2018–present
Academic offices
Preceded by
Ries van Hof
Rector Magnificus of the
Erasmus University Rotterdam

1986–1989
Succeeded by
Kees Rijnvos