Ed van den Berg appointed as interim Executive director
Ed van den Berg, MBA, will succeed Dirkje Schinkelshoek from 1 September as interim member of the Faculty Board of the Science Faculty, responsible for operational management.
Van den Berg studied Public Administration in Leiden, was trained at Berenschot in LEAN management and obtained an executive MBA at the Rotterdam School of Management.
He is a highly experienced interim manager in the semi-public domain and in the area of higher education and scientific research. He has worked for the NWO Institutes Organisation, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, the municipality of Amsterdam and the Netherlands Enterprise Agency.
Van den Berg will continue in his position as interim Director of Operational Management at the Faculty of Humanities at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam until the summer. From 1 September, he will join the Faculty Board of the Science Faculty in Leiden until a permanent successor has been recruited to replace Dirkje Schinkelshoek.