Chief ESG & Legal Officer
Marnix van Ginneken
Current role: Chief ESG & Legal Officer - Law (University of Utrecht)
Since: 2014
Born: New York, USA in 1973
Nationality: Dutch
Graduated:
- Ph.D. from University of Amsterdam
Chief ESG & Legal Officer
Marnix van Ginneken
Marnix van Ginneken is Executive Vice President and Chief ESG & Legal Officer of Royal Philips. He is a member of the Board of Management and the Executive Committee.
Marnix became Chief Legal Officer of Royal Philips and a member of the Executive Committee in 2014. In 2017, he was appointed a member of Philips’ Board of Management. Since 2021, he has been Co-Chair of Philips’ ESG Committee, with responsibility for driving Environmental, Social and Governance efforts across the company, including sustainability. Marnix is responsible for Legal, Intellectual Property & Standards, as well as Government & Public Affairs. In 2011, he was appointed Professor of International Corporate Governance at the Erasmus School of Law in Rotterdam.
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Marnix joined Philips in 2007 and became General Counsel Corporate and Head of Group Legal in 2010. In this role he was responsible for the various Group Legal departments, including Corporate & Financial Law, Legal Compliance and Legal M&A. Before joining Philips, Marnix worked for Akzo Nobel, and before that as an attorney in a private practice.
Marnix is a board member of the Association of Listed Companies (Vereniging Effecten Uitgevende Ondernemingen (VEUO)), the Grotius Academy Foundation (Stichting Grotius Academie), and the American Chamber of Commerce in the Netherlands.
Marnix studied law at the University of Utrecht and at Wayne State University in Detroit. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam.
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Current role: Chief ESG & Legal Officer - Law (University of Utrecht)
Since: 2014
Born: New York, USA in 1973
Nationality: Dutch
Graduated:
- Ph.D. from University of Amsterdam
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