Jean-François van Boxmeer

Jean-François van Boxmeer was born on 12 September 1961 in Ixelles, Belgium.[5] He received a master's degree in Economics from the Facultés universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix in Namur, Belgium in 1984.[1][2][5][3]

He joined Heineken International in 1984, when he worked as a trainee in the Netherlands until 1987.[1][2][5] He then worked for Heineken in Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Poland and Italy.[1][5] He served as general manager of Heineken Italia from 2000 to 2001, and has been on its board of directors since 2001.[1][2][5][3] In 2005, he was appointed Chairman of the Board and CEO.[1][5][3] He oversaw the control of Asia Pacific Breweries.[6] He believes the two key markets are Africa and India.[7][8] At the 2011 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, he said Nigeria was safer than Greece in terms of investments.[9][10]

He is a director of Mondelēz International, formerly known as Kraft Foods, since January 2010.[1][5][3] He is a director of the Consumer Goods Forum, on the board of governors of De Nederlandse Opera, and on the advisory board of the Louvain School of Management.[1][5][11]

In May 2020, Vodafone Group PLC named van Boxmeer as its new chairman. [12]