Peter Werkhoven steps down as member of the Executive Board

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19 December 2022

Prof. Peter Werkhoven will step down as member of the Executive Board on 1 January 2023. He is making this move of his own volition and for personal reasons. Peter will stay on as Scientific Advisor to the Board for a few days per week. In addition, Peter has worked and will continue to work as a professor at Utrecht University one day a week.

Peter Werkhoven started work at TNO as a young researcher 28 years ago and for the last four years he has been Chief Scientific Officer and a member of TNO’s Executive Board. Peter Werkhoven: ‘I don’t want to be completely without TNO just yet. I’m happy that I can continue to be of significance to TNO in my new role as Scientific Advisor to the Board, with more scope for my professorship and other great passions.’

Peter Werkhoven

'I’m happy that I can continue to be of significance to TNO in my new role as Scientific Advisor to the Board.'

Peter Werkhoven

TNO

Gijs de Vries, Chair of TNO’s Supervisory Board: ‘Peter has been of inestimable value to TNO both within and outside the Executive Board, and the Supervisory Board is therefore pleased that he will continue part of his work at TNO in the role of Scientific Advisor to the Board, in close cooperation with the CEO.’

TNO Executive Board