Member of the Board of Directors, Independent Director
Education
Mr Kuijlaars received a master’s in law from Erasmus University (Netherlands). He studied at the Dutch Institute of Banks and Insurance Companies and in a number of postgraduate programmes in such international institutions as Fontainebleau (France), Cambridge (UK) and Harvard Business School (US)
Current Roles
Mr Kuijlaars was elected to the Board of Halyk Bank in April 2009 and was re-elected in May 2023. He is the owner and managing director of Eureka (Energy) Ventures B.V.
Previous Executive Positions
From 1990 to 2007, Mr Kuijlaars served at ABN AMRO Bank and later at RBS as head of corporate and investment banking in Belgium, regional manager in Brazil and country manager in Russia and Argentina. He was a member of the supervisory board in Russia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. After his appointment as corporate executive vice president in 2001, in addition to supervision of global energy issues, he was a member of the executive committees of EMEA countries and the corporate and investment banking committee.
Mr Kuijlaars is an adviser to several international organisations and was for a long time a member of the Foreign Investor Council of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. He also served as chairman of the board of directors and independent director of National Company KazMunayGas, as well as independent non-executive director and independent member of the supervisory board of Amsterdam Trade Bank N.V.
