The Kingdom Council of Ministers appointed Glenn A.E. Thodé as a member of the Committee for Financial Supervision CFT on Friday, June 19, following the proposal of the public entities Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba. He will succeed Herbert Domacassé, whose term expires on July 1.

Thodé has held various positions in Bonaire and Aruba. Since 2012 he has been rector of University of Aruba. Previously, he was Lt. Governor of Bonaire from 2008 to 2011. The first years he held the position for the Island Territory of Bonaire, and from October 2010 on for the public entity Bonaire.

At the beginning of his career – from 1992 to 1998 – Thodé worked as a software instructor and system administrator. After completing his law studies, he continued his career in academia for more than 10 years, during which he worked for University of Aruba and University of Groningen, the Netherlands, among other capacities as a lecturer, scientific (senior) staff member and acting rector. He received his doctorate from University of Groningen in 2006.

He will soon become a board member of the school foundation Stichting Scholengemeenschap Bonaire SGB. As of this year he is chairman of the Nature Trust Foundation and since 2017 chairman of the Electoral Council in Aruba. In addition, he leads the Supervisory Committee on the Protection of Personal Data BES (Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba) as chairman since 2014.

Thodé has previously held various other social functions. He was chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Aruba General Pension Fund and chairman of the Advisory Committee on the Evaluation of Consensus Kingdom Laws and of the Advisory Committee on SGB to advise the state secretary and the minister of education, culture and science. He was also a member of the Evaluation Committee for the Constitutional Structure of the Caribbean Netherlands, the so-called “Spies Committee”.

CFT chairman Raymond Gradus thanked Domacassé for the “pleasant cooperation and his commitment” to financial supervision in the Caribbean Netherlands, and said he was looking forward to working with Thodé.