Hans Wijers

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name = Hans Wijers


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birth_name = Gerardus Johannes
birth_date = Birth date and age|1951|11|11|mf=y
birth_place = Oostburg, Netherlands
nationality = Dutch
residence = Zeist
ethnicity = Caucasian
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known_for = CEO of AkzoNobel (current), former Minister of Economic Affairs (1994–1998)
education = MSc at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, PhD from Erasmus University
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employer = AkzoNobel
occupation = CEO, president of the Board of Management
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term = 2003 onwards
predecessor = Aarnout Loudon
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website = www.akzonobel.com
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Gerardus Johannes (Hans) Wijers (born November 11, 1951) is the current CEO of AkzoNobel. From 1994 until 1998 he was a minister of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands.

Wijers studied Economics at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, where he graduated in 1976. As assistant professor, he taught Economics at the Erasmus University, and received a doctorate for his research in industrial politics. From 1982 till 1984, Wijers worked as a civil servant at the ministry of Social Affairs and Labour and later at the ministry of Economic Affairs. Subsequently, he became a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group for, among others, "Bakkenist, Spits & Co".

As minister of Economic affairs from 1994 onward, he was responsible for the law change regarding the extending of shop opening hours, and the coined the Competition Regulation law. A short period he was interim minister of Finance, during illness of Gerrit Zalm, the minister at the time. Wijers completed one full four-year period of the Dutch ministerial cabinet, but chose to continue his career in consultancy, where he became senior vicepresident of the Boston Consulting Group.

Since May 2003, he is the president of the Board of Management of AkzoNobel.