Pieter van Oord | President & Chief Executive Officer
Royal Schiphol Group

In 1989 Pieter van Oord started his career at Royal Van Ommeren Group (now VOPAK) and in 1992 assigned to Chicago as Commercial Manager for the Logistics Division. In 1994 he joined Van Oord ACZ as Managing Director in the UK and in 2001 appointed as Managing Director of the Offshore Division of Van Oord ACZ in The Netherlands. After the merger in 2005 between Van Oord ACZ and Ballast Ham Dredging, he was appointed as Managing Director of the Middle East in Dubai and responsible for the construction of the “Palm Island” and “The World”. In 2007 he was appointed to the Board of Van Oord NV in Rotterdam and became CEO as of November 2008 until April 2024.