Background
Vinken, Pierre Jacques was born in 1927 in Heerlen, The Netherlands, November.25.
neurosurgeon publishing executive
Vinken, Pierre Jacques was born in 1927 in Heerlen, The Netherlands, November.25.
Doctor of Medicine, University Utrecht, 1955. Postgraduate, University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1963. Doctor (honorary), University Paris, 1981.
Staff neurosurgeon University Clinic, Amsterdam, 1964-1969. President, chief editor Excerpta Medica Foundation, Amsterdam and Princeton, New Jersey, 1962-1988. Managing director Elsevier Public Company, Amsterdam, 1972-1978, chairman board directors, 1979-1995, Reed Elsevier, London, 1993-1995.
Chairman Netherlands delegate Intergovernmental Unisist Conference, Paris, 1970. Member Netherlands Unisist Commission, 1971—1979, National Science Policy Council, The Hague, 1983—1990. Professor medical database informatics University Leyden, 1975—1993.
Chairman supervising board Halder Holdings, The Hague, Netherlands, Blue Horse Productions, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Directors of Medialand, Amsterdam, 1997—1999, Directors of Optas, Rotterdam, 1997—1999, Trust Theater Company, Amsterdam, 1997—2000. Board directors Wereldhave Investment Company, Logica, Aalberts Industries, Revisor, National Academy Arts, International Rights-Collecting and Distbns. Agencies, chairman, since 2000.
President International Congress Patient Counselling, 1976—1979. Co-founder The National Library Fund, 1997. Chairman Netherlands Commission Bibliography and Documentation, 1972—1981.
Deputy chairman European Publications Council. Chairman Hiscom, Leyden, 1987—1998, The Lancet, London, 1991—1995. Board directors Pearson, 1988—1991, The Economist, London, 1989—1992.
Chairman Optas Foundation, Rotterdam, since 2000, Arbitration Council Willem Oltmans Versus State of Netherlands, 2000. Member committee recommendation Karel van het Reve Foundation, 2001. Member society advisory council Tinbergen Institute, Rotterdam, 1996—2000.
Member of European Information Providers Association (president 1980-1983), Peruvian Society Psychiatric Neurology and Neurosurgery (honorary), Amsterdam Neurological Society (honorary), French Neurological Society (honorary), Neurological Society India (honorary), Netherlands Republican Society (founder 1996), Order of Orange Nassau (Commander), Order of Netherlands' Lion (knight), Order Hipolitó Unanue (Commander).