H. Onno Ruding

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H. Onno Ruding is a banking executive and ex Netherlands Minister of Finance who sits on a number of European financial advisory bodies. He is chair of influential Brussels think tank the Center for European Policy Studies and has also been a director of aluminium company Alcan. He is rated 430th on the Forbes Global 2000 index in 2010.

Biography

According to his Forbes online profile in 2011:

Dr. Ruding has served private firms and the public (serving as Minister of Finance of The Netherlands from 1982-1989) in various financial positions, serving as a director of Citicorp and Citibank, N.A. from 1990 and 1998, respectively, to September 30, 2003 and vice chairman of Citicorp and Citibank, N.A. from 1992 to September 30, 2003. He retired from active employment from Citicorp and Citibank, N.A. on September 30, 2003. He was a member of the international advisory committee of Citigroup until February 2010. Dr. Ruding is also a director of BNG (Bank for the Netherlands Municipalities) and RTL Group, and a member of UNIAPAC, the Committee for European Monetary Union, the Pontifical Council Justice and Peace, the European Advisory Board of the American-European Community Association, the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation and the Trilateral Commission. Dr. Ruding is the chairman of the Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS), the chairman of the Netherlands National Museum Palace Het Loo and the chairman of the Advisory Council of the Amsterdam Institute of Finance. Dr. Ruding is a former director of Alcan Inc. and Holcim Ltd. Corning director since 1995. Age 71.