Victor van der Chijs

Victor van der Chijs (Ede, September 1, 1960) is Managing Partner of architecture and design office OMA: Office for Metropolitan Architecture founded by Rem Koolhaas, based in Rotterdam, New York and Beijing.

Next to the day-to-day responsibility for OMA’s operations, he is responsible for business development and expanding and professionalizing OMA's activities. Van der Chijs joined OMA early 2005. Since then, the OMA and its think-tank AMO tripled in size and restated profitability while maintaining strict creative standards.

Before joining OMA, Van der Chijs held various management positions at SchipholGroup N.V (international airport management company). Among others he was Director of Communications and Public Affairs lobbying for Amsterdam Airport Schiphol’s aircraft noise mitigation programme's, and Director of Strategic Projects preparing for Schiphol’s IPO (which was later derailed by the Dutch Labour Party) and setting up the strategic alliance between Schiphol and Frankfurt International Airport. He also was responsible for Schiphol’s USD 1.2 billion terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, a position he happened to start on September 11, 2001 and which forced a major financial restructuring of the project. Before joining Schiphol, Van der Chijs also worked for financial services group, ING for over 10 years, of which the last 3 years based in Hong Kong in the field of project finance in China.

Victor van der Chijs holds a master degree in Law from the University of Amsterdam, and has followed post-graduate education at the Amsterdam School of International Relations and at INSEAD, France.

Victor van der Chijs lives in Amsterdam. He is a member of the Dutch Trade Board (advisory committee to the Netherlands’ Government in the field of international trade).

ABN Amro International Business Award

Victor van der Chijs accepted for OMA in November 2007 the Jan Huygen van Linschoten Award of Dutch bank ABN AMRO. The award reflected the international success of OMA.

External links

* [http://www.oma.eu/ Office for Metropolitan Architecture]
* [http://www.insead.edu/ INSEAD's official website]