Professor Alexander Rinooy Kan is currently Professor of Business Administration and Economics at the University of Amsterdam. Previously, he was a member of the Upper House of the Dutch Parliament. He has also held many prominent management positions such as (but not limited to) Chairman of the Supervisory Board of EYE Film Institute Netherlands, Crown Member and Chairman of the Social and Economic Council (SER) and the Executive Board of ING Bank. The book he wrote with Gerdi Verbeet, ‘Voorzitter!’ on the art of chairing, is now in its sixth edition.