Club of Amsterdam - Shaping Your Future in the Knowledge Society

Frederik Johannes Abbink
Technical Director of the National Aerospace Laboratory NLR

NLR is an independent non-profit research institute based in the Netherlands that carries out contract research for national and international customers.

Present functions
· Technical Director of the National Aerospace Laboratory NLR (since 1988)

· Member of the Executive Committee of the Council of the Group for Aeronautics Research and Technology in Europe (GARTEUR) (Chairman 1994/1995) (Active in GARTEUR since 1982 in the Group of Responsables for Helicopters, and since 1988 in the Executive Committee)

· Member of the Board of the Department for Defence Technology of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Engineers (KIVI) (since 1988)

· Member of the Advisory Council of the Royal Netherlands Aviation Association (KNVvL) (since 1994)

· Member of the board of the foundation SIMNED (Simulation platform of the Netherlands) (since 1995)

· Member of the DISC (Dutch Institute of Systems and Control) (since 1996)

· Member of the NATO RTO-SAS Panel (since 1997)

· Member of the Programme Committee of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS) (since 1998)

· Member of the Advisory Group for the Key Action "New perspectives in Aeronautics" of the European Commission-DG XII/C ( since 1998)

· Member of the Advisory Council of the Aeronautical Technical College Haarlem (since 1998)
· Tutor of the "Flevoland Technology Centre" (since 2000)

· Chairman of the Netherlands foundation "Fibre Metal Laminates Centre of Competence" in Delft (since 2001)

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