Jaap Goudsmit

Leiden ,  NL

Officer since September 2001

58 Years Old

Mr. Jaap Goudsmit is a member of the Management Board since January 2004. He was Senior Vice President Vaccine Research from September 2001 until July 2002 and member of the Management Committee from July 2002 as Executive Vice President Vaccine R&D. In September 2002 he was appointed Chief Scientific Officer. He chaired the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam, the Research Institute for Infectious Diseases and the Institute for Science Education. He was the founding Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and the founding co-Chairman of the European Vaccine Effort against HIV/AIDS (EuroVac). Since 1989, he has been a professor at the University of Amsterdam and the Academic Medical Center. He holds a medical degree (MD) and a PhD from the University of Amsterdam. Mr. Goudsmit is a Dutch citizen.