Victor van der Chijs
Victor van der Chijs (Epe, September 1, 1960) is Managing Partner of Rem Koolhaas'architecture and design office OMA: Office for Metropolitan Architecture, based in Rotterdam, New York and Beijing.
Next to the day-to-day responsibility for OMA’s operations, he is responsible for business development and expanding and professionalizing OMA's activities. Before joining OMA, he was Managing Director of Schiphol International BV (international airport management company). He also worked for financial services group, ING for over 10 years. Victor van der Chijs holds a master degree in Law from the University of Amsterdam, and has followed post-graduate education at the Amsterdam School of International Relations and at INSEAD, France.
Victor van der Chijs is married and lives in Amsterdam.
ABN Amro International Business Award
Victor van der Chijs accepted for OMA in November 2007 the Jan Huygen van Linschoten Award of Dutch bank ABN AMRO. The award reflected the success of the new internationally oriented business model he introduced at OMA.