Dear members and relations of Dujat,
First of all, we would like to wish everyone a happy, healthy and fruitful new year. We are pleased to start the year with the announcement that Luc Houben, Senior Advisor of Jones Day, has been appointed to be our new Chairman as of January 1st 2020.
He succeeds Geert Jan Mantel, who was our Chairman for 6 years. During all those years he achieved so much for our organization, for which we extend our sincere gratitude.
Luc Houben was already active as Vice Chairman of Dujat in 2019. He has worked with Japanese companies for many years and he also lived in Japan. We are very grateful that he is willing to take up this important position. If you have not met him please come to the New Year reception on January 27th 2020 to meet with him.