{"id":124536,"date":"2021-03-24T16:58:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T15:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=124536"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:25:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:25:30","slug":"new-board-member-van-schoten-wants-more-insight-into-finances-and-a-more-mature-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2021\/03\/24\/new-board-member-van-schoten-wants-more-insight-into-finances-and-a-more-mature-it\/","title":{"rendered":"New Board Member Van Schoten wants more insight into finances and a more mature IT"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Just call me a board member<\/em>.” Ellen van Schoten, since 1 January the newest member of the Executive Board, which was replaced in its entirety over the past year, prefers not to be called the ‘third member\u2019,<\/em> as her position is officially titled. “Leave that out,” she says with a smile at the beginning of this introductory interview. Her main challenges for the coming years will be to keep finances in balance and professionalise the IT system. “The important thing is that we get back in control<\/em>,” she says.<\/p>\n

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Van Schoten (1966) succeeded Roelien Ritsema van Eck as the person in charge of the university\u2019s operational management and has now been in office for about eleven weeks. In the middle of the corona period, she transferred to the EUR from the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets, where she was also responsible for operational management as the Chief Operations Officer. It was an exciting time to start work, given that the corona crisis calls for a new vision on finances, work and use of space on the campus. These are all matters that fall under her portfolio. Van Schoten also works a lot from her home in Haarlem, so the conversation takes place via a video link.<\/p>\n

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Ellen van Schoten <\/span><\/p>

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On screen, a beautiful antique bookcase takes pride of place behind her. The classics suit her: \u201cI like to play the violin and the piano. That\u2019s just for my own pleasure, but I have been taking lessons for two years now. I love Bach, and I\u2019ve just started the three-part inventions on the piano, which I\u2019m quite proud of!\u201d This love of classics is also reflected in her choice of where she lives. She would like to live closer to the campus, but the high-rise metropolis of Rotterdam is a bit too sleek for her. Which is why she is moving from Haarlem to Delft soon. \u201cI really love canal-side monumental buildings. They have more of those in Delft.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the biggest challenges Van Schoten says that she faces are the developments surrounding IT. A merger between the IT department and the department of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) is in full swing, yet much more needs to be done. \u201cIt is important that we get back in control. That we map out which major projects still need long-overdue maintenance to be done. The level of maturity has got to be raised.\u201d<\/p>\n

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