Profile Mirella Visser

Experience:

· Regional director ING, located in Hong Kong, member of management board ING FSI,          responsible for operations (Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia)

· Business development director ING (India, Thailand, Taiwan, Indonesia, China) (HK)

· Director Sales Force, Nationale-Nederlanden, The Hague (NL)

· Senior consultant KPMG Post-merger integrations financial services companies (NL)

· Manager Asia desk KPMG (NL)

· Founder and CEO of the Centre for Inclusive Leadership (2004)

· Supervisory Board Royal Swets & Zeitlinger (since 2006)

 

Education:

· Master at Law (LL.M.) Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit)

· General Management Programme CEDEP (Centre Européen d’Education Permanente,

             Fontainebleau, France)

· Joint Venture Management (INSEAD Singapore)

· Creative Communication (Executive Performance Training)

· High Performance Boards (IMD, Lausanne)

· PWC Board Room Essentials

 

Awards, jury memberships:

· Member of Jury Diversity Award 2004 (Dutch employers federation VNO-NCW)

· Member of Jury European Business Plan Competition 2006 (annual European business school competition)

· Nominated as ‘European of the Year 2007’ in the category ‘Campaigner of the Year  2007’ by European Voice (Economist Group company) for promoting professional progress of women in Europe and the Netherlands:  www.ev50.org and EV50 report

· ‘The Silk Road to the Top/De zijderoute naar de top’ was nominated as ‘Management book of the Year 2010’ (by an expert jury out of 300 management books)

 

Current activities:

· Boardroom consultant on leadership

· Senior expert Women and Leadership (Gender Equality) at European Commission, Brussels

· Member of the Supervisory Board Royal Swets & Zeitlinger (www.swets.com)

· Member of Advisory Board of the European Leadership Platform (www.elplatform.com)

· Business faculty Rotterdam School of Management; business mentor MBA classes

· Guest lecturer at the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership Europe : www.greenleafcenterservantleadership.eu

· International conference chairperson and facilitator/moderator of panel discussions

· Speaker at international conferences, workshop leader on ‘Women and Leadership’, ‘European Leadership’, ‘Inclusive Leadership’, ‘Effective leadership in Asia’, ‘Mentoring as tool’, ‘Strategic Networking’ etc.

· Guest lecturer at universities and business schools (RSM Rotterdam, Leiden university school of Management, IEDC School of Management (Bled), IMD Lausanne)

· Author of several books, articles and publications 

 

Volunteer activities and memberships:

· Founder (2005) and President (2007—2010) of the European Board of the European Professional Women’s Network (3500 members, in 17 European cities) (www.europeanpwn.net)

· Founder and board member of the Foundation for Sandhi Institute (www.sandhi.org)

· Member of the Expertpanel Commissarissen (Supervisory board members) at NCD

· Member of LinkedIn