Lucas van Wees
Vice President Human Resources Commercial & Global
KLM
Lucas van Wees MBA MBT (1959) holds an B.Sc in Tourism & Leisure (Breda) and Masters in Social Sciences (Tilburg), Telecommunications (Delft) in the Netherlands and Business (IMD, Lausanne) in Switzerland. He worked for Philips, Shell and KPN in HR, management and commercial jobs. Since 2001 he is Vice President HR Commercial and Global for KLM which merged mid 2004 with Air France.
Van Wees was co-author or editor for four books and published various (international) articles a.o. for Personnel Journal, the International Journal of Career Management and the Journal of Management Development. His contribution to a European book, describing HR practices in 13 European countries, is expected to be published in 2008 by Routledge, Taylor & Francis (ISBN 978-0-415-44761-4).
He is a member of the Board of the Dutch Association of Personnel Management (NVP) and, on behalf of the NVP, delegate for the European Association of Personnel Management (EAPM). He is chairman of the Jury of the first European HR Award 2009 in which some 20 European countries will participate. This Award will be granted at the EAPM-congress on 11-13 June in The Hague.
