Prof.dr.ir. Tom Veldkamp - Rector Magnificus
Tom Veldkamp (1963) is UT’s Rector Magnificus since 27 November 2020. He did his PhD at Wageningen University and Research, in 2002 he was appointed as Professor of Land Dynamics at this university. He was Head of the Landscape Centre at Wageningen, and scientific director of the Centre for Geo-Information and Remote Sensing.
In 2010, Tom Veldkamp was appointed as Rector/Dean of the ITC institute – Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, as the successor of Prof Martien Molenaar. In his years as a Dean, he led the transformation of ITC - from an independent institute to one of UT’s faculties. ITC has a very good reputation across the world, many of its alumni are at prominent positions in their home country. Tom Veldkamp is a sought-after speaker about different aspects of earth sciences. His scientific work was cited over 21,000 times, and he was the promotor/supervisor of dozens of PhD students. He is, among others, the editor-in-chief of ‘Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment’. Veldkamp was the iniator of many public-private partnerships in education and research, across the world. At the University of Twente, he was recently involved in University College Twente ATLAS and in shaping the new cross-disciplinary programme of Spatial Engineering (now Spatial Systems & Society).
Machteld Roos, MSc - Vice President
Mrs. Machteld Roos MSc (1975) is Vice-President of the Executive Board per 1 September 2021. Until then, she was Director Research & Operations of the Environmental Sciences Group (ESG) of Wageningen University & Research: this is one of the five large research groups of WUR.
Between 2009 and 2017, Machteld was Chief Financial Officer at NIVEL, the Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research. She was Head of the Project Office of SNS Regio Bank, Head of Business Operations at SEO Economics Research, Programme Manager at the Business School of the University of Amsterdam and Software accountmanager at IBM.
Machteld studied Business Economics at the University of Amsterdam, joined an exchange programme at Waseda University Tokyo. Later on, she did the Nyenrode Supervisory Board Cycle and the IMD Lausanne Leadership programme.