Profile Mirella Visser

Experience:

· Regional director ING, located in Hong Kong, Management of Southeast Asian 

             operations (Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia)

· Business development India, Thailand, Taiwan, Indonesia, China

· Director Sales Force, Nationale-Nederlanden, The Hague

· Senior consultant KPMG Post-merger integrations financial services companies

· Manager Asia desk KPMG

· Supervisory Board Royal Swets & Zeitlinger

 

Education:

· LLM 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)

 

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 »and « Campaigner of the Year 2007 » by European Voice (Economist Group company)  www.ev50.org and EV50 report

 

Current activities:

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

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

· Advisory Board European Leadership Platform   

             (www.europeanleadershipplatform.com)

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

· Guest lecturer at the Centre for Generative Leadership, the Academy for Servant

             Leadership

· Speaker at international conferences on ‘Women and Leadership’, ‘European

             Leadership’ and ‘Being    effective as a leader in Asia’

· Guest lecturer at universities and business schools (RSM, Leiden University School of

             Management, IEDC Bled School of Management, IMD Lausanne)

· Boardroom consultant

· Interim manager

· Coach of top management

· Conference chairperson and facilitator/moderator or panel discussions

· Author of several articles and publications 

 

Volunteer activities and memberships:

· President of the Board of the European Professional Women’s Network (3500 members, in 17 European cities) (www.europeanpwn.net)

· Mentor to the Sandhi Institute (www.sandhi.org)

· Member of Nederlands Centrum voor Directeuren en Commissarissen (www.ncd.nl)

· Ambassador of The Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership Europe

· Member of the European Commission’s Network for Women in Decision-making in Politics and the Economy (press release)