The Supervisory Board of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands has appointed prof. dr. P.H.A.M. (Paul) Verhaegen as of 1 October 2006 for a period of
4 years as a Member of the Executive Board of TU/e. Furthermore he will be active as professor of Entrepreneurship, particularly in the field of Entrepreneurial Finance. At present prof. Verhaegen works at the Erasmus University Rotterdam as Dean of International Affairs and Full Professor of Management at the Rotterdam School of Management. In Eindhoven he will succeed prof. dr. H.M. (Hans) Amman who was appointed earlier this year as Member of the Executive Board of Utrecht University. Besides prof. Verhaegen the Executive Board of TU/e comprises two other Members:  A.H. (Amandus) Lundqvist (President) and prof. dr. ir. C.J. (Hans) van Duijn (Rector).

Paul Verhaegen, born in 1950 in The Hague, The Netherlands, obtained a MSc-degree in econometrics in 1975 at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he also took his PhD in economics in 1986 with a dissertation on the investment process in diversified internationally operating companies. Between 1975 and 1981 he was Assistant Professor of Quantitative Economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and successively from 1981 until 1985 Associate Professor of Business Economis at the Erasmus School of Economics. From 1987 until 1988 prof. Verhaegen was Head of the Division Financial Markets and Institutions of the Dutch Ministry of Finance and Secretary-General of the Central Investment Council of the Netherlands. From 1988-1997 he was active as a Member of the Board of Directors of the Conferation of Netherlands Industry and Employers. Between 1987 and 1996 he was also active as part time Professor of Economics at the Dutch Open University. In 1988 prof. Verhaegen was appointed as Dean of the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), the international business school of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He was Dean of the RSM from 1997 until 2002. Since then he has combined his professorship with a position as Dean of International Affairs of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Besides he is Chairman of the Community of European Management Schools (CEMS) and advisor for the European Foundation of Management Development (EFMD) and several international business schools.

Prof. Verhaegen holds several supervisory and advisory positions in the field of economics and business in institutions both in the public and private sector. He is a Member of the Supervisory Board of several companies. Paul Verhaegen is married with 3 children.

TU/e:  Where Innovation Starts

Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), situated in the Netherlands, is an internationally leading university in engineering science & technology. With high quality education and research TU/e contributes to the advancement of technical sciences, to the development of technology driven innovations and with that to the growth of welfare and prosperity both in the Eindhoven region (one of Europe's best performing technology & innovation hotspots) and on a broader scale.
With a citation impact score of 1.40 TU/e is third in the ranking of universities in the European Union, behind Oxford and Cambridge. TU/e has about 7.000 students, 110 PDEng-students (Professional Doctorate in Engineering), 660 PhD-students, 110 full-time and 125 part-time professors,  3.000 employees and an annual income of  more than 250 million euro. Eindhoven is the industrial and technological mainstay of the Netherlands: 50 % of Dutch research & development expenditure is spent  in this region and 30 % of regional employment is related to the industrial sector. The Eindhoven region is the main seat of Royal Philips, ASML, DAF Trucks, Océ and many other high tech companies. In addition to the TU/e Campus a second regional R&D center is so called High Tech Campus Eindhoven. This is a worldwide well-known technology center, with a diversity of high tech companies (such as Philips) who work together in the development of new technologies, from idea, concept to prototyping. It provides advanced facilities and an optimised working culture for many thousands of top-notch engineers. It focuses on crucial technological areas such as microsystems, devices, embedded systems, signal processing and nanotechnology. TU/e participates in numerous public-private R&D-institutes, in which knowledge institutes work together with industry in an open innovation environment. Several of this institutes reside at either the TU/e Campus or the High Tech Campus Eindhoven..

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