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Which employer did Alexander Rinnooy Kan work for from Sep 1996 to Aug 2006?
Alexander Rinnooy Kan Alexander Hendrik George Rinnooy Kan ( born 5 October 1949 ) is a Dutch politician , businessman and mathematician who served as Chairman of the Social and Economic Council from 2006 to 2012 . A member of the Democrats 66 ( D66 ) party , he was a member of the Senate from 2015 to 2019 and has been a Professor of Economics and Business Studies at the University of Amsterdam since 1 September 2012 . He has also been president of the supervisory board of EYE Film Institute Netherlands since 2008 and of Museum Boerhaave since 2018 . Biography . Early life and education . Rinnooy Kan grew up in The Hague . He graduated in mathematics at Leiden University in 1972 . The same year , he obtained his B.Sc . degree in econometrics from the University of Amsterdam . In 1972–1973 , he worked as a mathematician at Spectrum Encyclopedia . From 1973 until 1977 , he was a scientific employee in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Delft University of Technology ( then called the Delft Technical College ) . In 1976 , he obtained a PhD in mathematics at the University of Amsterdam ; he was advised by Gijsbert de Leve . Private career . In 1977 , he went to the Erasmus University Rotterdam , where he became a full Professor in Operations Research in 1980 at the age of 30 . In 1983 , he was appointed head of the Econometric Institute and in 1986 rector magnificus of the university . In the meantime , he was visiting professor at the University of California , Berkeley and MIT , among others . From 1991 until 1996 , he was president of the employers federation VNO and ( after the merger with NCW ) of the VNO-NCW . Between 1996 and 2006 , Rinnooy Kan was a member of the board of directors of ING Group , where he was responsible for the Asian branch . He was a member of the Netherlands Innovation Platform until the platform was dissolved in 2010 . Social Economic Council . From 2006 until 2012 , he was a crown-appointed member and Chairman of the Social and Economic Council ( SER ) . He was succeeded in this position by Wiebe Draijer . During his farewell party at the SER he was appointed Commander in the Order of the Netherlands Lion . The Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant named him the most influential person in the Netherlands in 2007 , 2008 and 2009 . Senate . On 9 June 2015 , he became a member of the Senate on behalf of the Democrats 66 party . He did not seek reelection to the upper chamber in 2019 ; his term ended on 11 June 2019 . Publications . Books . - 1985 The Traveling Salesman Problem : A Guided Tour of Combinatorial Optimization . With Eugene L . Lawler , Jan Karel Lenstra , and David B . Shmoys . John Wiley & Sons , New York , NY . - 1993 , Logistics of Production and Inventory . Vol . 4 . with Stephen C . Graves , and Paul Herbert Zipkin , eds . Selected articles . - Byrd , R . H. , Dert , C . L. , Rinnooy Kan , A . H . G. , & Schnabel , R . B . ( 1990 ) . Concurrent Stochastic Methods for Global Optimization . Mathematical Programming , 46 ( 1-3 ) , 1-29 . - Lenstra , A . K. , A . H . G . Rinnooy Kan , and Alexander Schrijver . History of Mathematical Programming : A Collection of Personal Reminiscences . ( 1991 ) . - Bastian , Cock , and Alexander H . G . Rinnooy Kan . The Stochastic Vehicle Routing Problem Revisited . European Journal of Operational Research 56.3 ( 1992 ) : 407–412 . - Flippo , O . E. , & Rinnooy Kan , A . H . G . ( 1993 ) . Decomposition in General Mathematical Programming . Mathematical Programming , 60 ( 1-3 ) , 361–382 . - Lawler , Eugene L. , J . K . Lenstra , A . H . G . Rinnooy Kan , and D.B . Shmoys . Sequencing and Scheduling : Algorithms and Complexity . Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science 4 ( 1993 ) : 445–522 . External links . - Official - Prof.Dr . A.H.G . ( Alexander ) Rinnooy Kan Parlement & Politiek - Prof.Dr . A.H.G . Rinnooy Kan ( D66 ) Eerste Kamer der Staten-Generaal