Ineke Bussemaker

Ineke Bussemaker has more than 30 years of experience in commercial banking leadership roles. Acknowledged as an inspirational and progressive people manager, she has throughout her career maintained focus on the synergies of new technologies with traditional banking products and payments to introduce and cultivate major innovations in financial services. At the beginning of 2020, she made a career switch to become Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. In this role she builds on her business management skills to achieve a digital transformation in education and to prepare young business and finance professionals for tomorrow.

Her banking career covers 5 banks across 5 countries from payment services to corporate and investment banking in product development roles, technology innovations and executive management roles.

In her most recent banking role she was CEO for NMB Bank Plc in Tanzania. Prior to this she was Head of Payment Services at Rabobank, the Netherlands, where she also chaired the Dutch banking community in the migration to SEPA and was a member of the European Payments Council. She worked for Citibank in the Netherlands, UK and Denmark.

NED roles include: member of the Board of Women’s World Banking Inc and Chair of the Supervisory Board of Invest International BV.

Ineke has an MBA from RSM, Rotterdam School of Management, and a Bachelor degree in Mathematics from Leiden University.