Jean-François van Boxmeer
Jean-François van Boxmeer is a Belgian businessman, and was the chairman of the executive board and chief executive officer of Heineken International. In June 2020 Jean-François van Boxmeer was succeeded as CEO of Heineken International by Dolf van den Brink.Biography
Jean-François van Boxmeer was born on 12 September 1961 in Ixelles, Belgium. He received a master's degree in Economics from the Facultés universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix in Namur, Belgium in 1984.
He joined Heineken International in 1984, when he worked as a trainee in the Netherlands until 1987. He then worked for Heineken in Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Poland and Italy. He served as general manager of Heineken Italia from 2000 to 2001, and has been on its board of directors since 2001. In 2005, he was appointed Chairman of the Board and CEO. He oversaw the control of Asia Pacific Breweries. He believes the two key markets are Africa and India. At the 2011 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, he said Nigeria was safer than Greece in terms of investments.
He is a director of Mondelēz International, formerly known as Kraft Foods, since January 2010. He is a director of the Consumer Goods Forum, on the board of governors of De Nederlandse Opera, and on the advisory board of the Louvain School of Management.
In May 2020, Vodafone Group PLC named van Boxmeer as its new chairman.
