Dick Benschop
Dick Benschop
Dick Benschop was appointed President and Chief Executive Office of Royal Schiphol Group in Schiphol on 1 May 2018. He was previously from June 2016 Vice President Joint Ventures Excellence of Shell International in The Hague. Dick Benschop studied History at the Free University in Amsterdam. He worked in various functions in the Dutch Parliament and in the Dutch Labour Party. In 1994 he founded his own consultancy firm. From 1998 to 2002 he returned to politics as deputy minister for Foreign Affairs. In 2003 he joined Shell and worked in Shell Energy Europe. He moved to Kuala Lumpur at the beginning of 2006 overseeing the Gas & Power business in Malaysia. In 2009 he took up the role of Vice President Strategy for the Royal Dutch Shell Group. From May 2011 to end 2015 Dick Benschop was President of Shell Nederland B.V.
