Board

Marjan Oudeman is a member of the Supervisory Boards of several companies in the Netherlands and elsewhere, including UPM-Kymmene Corporation and Solvay SA. She also serves in various additional roles. Marjan Oudeman previously held a seat on the Executive Committee of the European Division of the Tata Steel Group, and served as Executive Director of that steel company’s Strip Division. She was later appointed to the Executive Committee of AkzoNobel. She is also a former chair of the Executive Board of Utrecht University.

Paulien Herder is both Dean of the Faculty of Applied Sciences and Professor of Energy Systems at TU Delft. She serves on the Supervisory Board at Hotelschool The Hague and also sits on the Scientific Sounding Board Committee of the North Sea Agreement. Paulien Herder is an expert in energy system integration and fossil-free solutions for energy and industry using electrochemical conversion, blending technical sciences with social and behavioural sciences. Between 2013 and 2019, she served as Director of the Delft Energy Initiative, overseeing around 1,000 energy researchers based on the Delft campus. Between 2014 and 2022, she was part of Energy Innovation NL’s Top Team.

Vision on green hydrogen by Paulien herder

At Aramis CCS, Annemarie Manger’s role is Head of Joint team. Aramis is a joint venture involving TotalEnergies, Shell, Energie Beheer Nederland (EBN), and Nederlandse Gasunie. Aramis seeks to play a key role in reducing CO₂ emissions from hard-to-decarbonise industries by developing large-scale infrastructure for transporting CO₂ and storing it in depleted gas fields beneath the North Sea. Before joining Aramis, Annemarie was Director of Sustainability and Decarbonisation at Tata Steel, which at the time made a clear commitment to the hydrogen pathway. A chemical technologist with wide-ranging experience in the energy transition, she combines her knowledge of decarbonisation, sustainability, and project management with a commitment to connect players in the energy transition. Until 2008, she worked at Fluor (an engineering and construction company) on the design, upscaling, and realisation of industrial projects.