Jaap van Dam

Jaap van Dam is the principal director of investment strategy at PGGM. Van Dam is chair of the Dutch Association of Investors for Sustainable Development (VBDO), of the advisory board of the Erasmus Platform for Sustainable Value Creation. Van Dam is co-chair of the research committee at ICPM. He holds a Master’s Degree in Finance from Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Van Dam has performed many roles within the field, ranging from fundamental and quantitative analysis to external manager selection and portfolio construction. Van Dam joined PGGM in 2005 as head of internal equity management. In 2006 he was appointed chief strategist. Van Dam is a member of the NEST (UK) investment committee. Together with prof. Kees Koedijk and prof Alfred Slager he authored the book Achieving Investment Excellence, a practical guide for Trustees of Pension Funds, Endowments and foundations (2019). He received his masters degree in Finance at the Erasmus Universiteit in Rotterdam.