DE RUITER INTERVIEW
April 1st, 2003
BY ALAN OSBORNMr Willem de Ruiter (51), a Dutchman with a degree in civil engineering, has been appointed the first executive director of the European Maritime Safety Agency, which was created by EU governments last year and is in the process of being set up. Mr de Ruiter worked for ten years as research engineer and chief engineer in the Ministry of Public Works in the Netherlands before joining the European Commission in 1985. Between 1996 and 1999 he was head of unit for internal market and application of Community law in maritime transport and in 1999 was ...
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