{"id":163275,"date":"2024-01-22T15:54:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T14:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=163275"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:27:08","slug":"executive-board-president-ed-brinksma-to-leave-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2024\/01\/22\/executive-board-president-ed-brinksma-to-leave-in-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Executive Board President Ed Brinksma to leave in September"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed Brinksma will leave after his first term as president of the Executive Board. He will be retiring this spring and hopes to spend more time with friends and family.<\/p>\n

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Executive Board President Ed Brinksma <\/span><\/p>

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Executive Board President Ed Brinksma is leaving in September. At that time, his term as member of the Executive Board will be over and he will have reached state pension age. \u201cIt is for personal reasons that I, after fifteen years as a university administrator, am choosing a future in which I can devote more time and attention to the people close to me\u201d, he said in a message from the university.<\/p>\n

Brinksma became chair in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, in September 2020. This period was difficult not only because of the pandemic, but also due to the many changes in administrative staff at EUR. He took over the position from interim President Hans Smits, who had been brought in after the previous president, Kristel Baele, had not been granted a second term. Three months after Brink\u2019s appointment, the rector magnificus at the time, Rutger Engels, stepped down.<\/p>\n\n\t

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