Jan Ernst de Groot

Chief Sustainability Officer Ahold Delhaize

Jan is a director and supervisor in the large corporate sector and at several NGOs. For the past twenty years or so, he has been working from the boardroom to link commercial business objectives with issues of broad prosperity. He was, among other things, a member of the executive board of KLM. He is currently Chief Legal Officer and a member of the Executive Committee of Ahold Delhaize and a supervisory director of a large family firm. In addition, he is a member of the executive board of VNO-NCW and chairman of the supervisory board of two nature organisations. Food, human rights and climate have his special interest. Jan Ernst believes in the combination of knowledge, mindset and cooperation. The 2100 Initiative can help managers to discover and fill in the blind spots for truly widespread prosperity.