Meet the New Dean

We are pleased to announce Cornelis A. “Kees” de Kluyver as dean of the University of Oregon's Lundquist College of Business.

As a member of the college's Inner Circle–our closest alumni, benefactors, and friends–we've prepared a special video introducing Kees just for you.

An alum of the college, Kees was born in the Netherlands and did undergraduate work at Nyenrode Business University before earning a bachelor's degree in marketing and an MBA from UO. He holds another master's degree and a doctorate in operations research from Case Western Reserve University.

Kees brings his strong leadership and strategic vision to the college September 1, 2010.

Experience

• Associate professor of management, Purdue University
• Professor of marketing, University of Virginia
• Dean, School of Business Administration, George Mason University
• Dean, Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University
• Professor of management, Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University
• Visiting Professor, Oxford University (UK), Nyenrode Business University (The Netherlands), Stellenbosch University (South Africa), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo), St. George’s University (Grenada)
• Partner, Cresap Management Consultants, a Towers Perrin company

Points of Interest

• Authored three books:
• A Primer on Corporate Governance
• Strategy: A View From the Top
• Fundamentals of Global Strategy
• Plays banjo in a Dixeland jazz band
• Owns 150 suspenders

More

• Read a Message from the Dean
• View Kees's Complete Faculty Profile

Please join us in welcoming Kees in this exciting time of unprecedented potential as the college accelerates to new levels of excellence: kees@uoregon.edu.