Biography
Jan Stolker combines international boardroom experience with academic leadership and expertise.
Academic interests
Stolker is Director of Leadership & Governance at the Erasmus School of Economics (EURAC/EIBE). From 2009 to 2024, he founded and led the Erasmus Governance Institute, the university's executive education and research centre for non-executive directors and corporate governance.
His latest book, Behavioral Corporate Governance in Practice (Routledge, 2026), is the first comprehensive international textbook to examine corporate governance consistently through a behavioral lens, covering leadership, strategy, finance, accounting, risk management, purpose, and ethics. It builds on his earlier Dutch textbook, Het Spel in de Boardroom: een introductie in Behavioral Governance (2023).
His research and publications focus on corporate governance, governance codes, board dynamics, leadership, sustainable business, private equity, and the market for non-executive directors and board talent.
Alongside his academic work, he is a frequent speaker at conferences and executive education programmes on corporate governance.
Business profile
Stolker graduated in Business Economics, with a specialization in Public Finance, from Erasmus University Rotterdam in 1980 and joined AMRO Bank, holding senior management positions in corporate banking in the Netherlands, across Western Europe, and in New York. In 1990, ahead of the merger that formally created ABN AMRO in 1991, he was appointed Co-Head of Global Risk Management. Later he founded ABN AMRO Capital, the bank's global private equity division, and served as its CEO from 1994 to 2002.
Since 2002, he has worked as an independent boardroom advisor, non-executive director, and turnaround executive, advising organizations on restructuring, governance, and strategic transformation.