Den Haag, 19-3-07
The Supervisory Board of Royal KPN NV proposes the appointment of Mrs Dr. C.M. (Tiny) Colijn-Hooymans (55) as a member of the Supervisory Board and will put this to the Annual General Meeting of shareholders on April 17th. She will succeed Prof. drs. V. Halberstadt, who steps down after his third four-year term. The central works council has already expressed its support for the proposal.
Mrs Colijn took her Ph.D. in Mathematics and Physics at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam after receiving a doctorate in Biology at the University of Leiden.
Mrs Colijn has been a member of the Board of Management of TNO in Delft since October 2002, where amongst other things she is responsible for strategy and planning. She also holds a number of supervisory and advisory positions, including membership of the Science and Technology Advisory Council of the Dutch ministries of Education and Economic Affairs and membership of the Board of the Radboud Foundation (Nijmegen University and Medical Centre).
The Supervisory Board will also propose that members M. Bisschoff and J.B.M. Streppel, who have both served on the Board for the last four years, will be appointed for a subsequent term.