The Board of financial supervision Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba is responsible for advising the governments of the public entities and the Minister, and for the guidance of the executive councils with the daily financial management.
The Board has the role to control and correct the financial administration of the public entities. This includes structuring and composing of the budget and the formulation of decisions with financial consequences.
The task of the Board in the budgetary process is to control and sometimes to compel. The Board advises on the draft budget, and it may also give recommendations for adaptations of the budget. The Board has to be given the opportunity to advise on adaptations of the budget as well. The Board has an important role on the supervision of the financial management of the public entities. The Board may at any time execute a review of the financial management and the arrangement of the financial organization, make agreements on this matter with executive councils and if necessary give instructions.
Lidewijde Ongering
Chairman
Ms. L.M.C. (Lidewijde) Ongering is chairperson since February 1st, 2023, of Board of financial supervision Curaçao and Sint Maarten, the Board of financial supervision Aruba and the Board of financial supervision Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba. She has a long track record at a large number of Hague departments. For instance, she was recently Secretary-General at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate and prior to that at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, where she previously held the position of Director-General for Accessibility.
Other official positions included that of Deputy National Coordinator of Counter-Terrorism and Security at the Ministry of Justice and Security, Deputy Director-General of Public Order and Security at the Ministry of Interior Affairs and Kingdom Relations and Director of Financial Economic Affairs at the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. Lidewijde Ongering has a Master's degree in Public Administration from the Technical University of Twente.
Glenn Thodé
Member upon proposal of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
Mr. Glenn Thodé (1965) is a member of the Board of financial supervision upon proposal of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba as of July 1st, 2020. Thodé holds a PhD in Law from the University of Groningen. Thodé started his career in the computer world, where he worked as a computer software instructor and system administrator for several years during his law studies (1992-1998). He made the transition to academia, where he first was associated with the University of Aruba as a freelance employee. Subsequently (1997) he briefly worked on a legislative project for Fundacion pa Naturalesa y Parke, Directorate for Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment (VROM) and World Wildlife Fund (WWF). From 1998 to 2002 he lectured at the University of Groningen while doing his PhD research. From 2002 to 2008 he was a scientific (senior) staff member at the University of Aruba. Thodé then started an administrative career as Lieutenant Governor of Bonaire (2008-2011). In 2012 he returned to academia where he became Rector of the University of Aruba, a position he has held so far. Glenn Thodé has been affiliated with various civil society organizations since 2002. He has chaired amongst others the Supervisory Board of the Stichting Algemeen Pensioenfonds Aruba, the Advisory Committee on the Evaluation of Consensus Kingdom Laws on Justice and the Advisory Committee on Scholengemeenschap Bonaire (SGB) to advise the State Secretary and the Minister of Education, Culture and Science. He was also member of the Evaluation Committee on the Political Structure of the Caribbean Netherlands (Spies Committee). From 2014, he has headed the BES Personal Data Protection Supervisory Committee. He has also been an editorial member of both the Antilliaanse Juristen Blad and the SNAAR series of Boom Juridische Uitgevers since 2015. As of 2017 he is chairman of the Electoral Council Aruba and starting this year he is chairman of the Nature Trust Foundation and member of the board of Stichting Scholengemeenschap Bonaire. Thodé has several legal publications to his name.
Hans Hoogervorst
Member upon proposal of The Netherlands
Mr. Hans Hoogervorst (1956) has been a member of the Boards of financial supervision upon proposal of the Netherlands since December 17th, 2021. After starting in the international financial sector in Washington, Mr. Hoogervorst returned to the Netherlands, where he worked as a policy advisor. He has also been active in Dutch politics for many years and has held various administrative positions.
After a period of four years as a parliamentarian, as of 1998 for four years Mr. Hoogervorst held the position of State Secretary for the ministry of Social Affairs. This was followed by a position as a Minister: after a short period in 2002 and 2003 as Minister of Finance, in 2003 he became Minister of Healthcare, in which capacity he replaced the health insurance fund with the current health care system.
Hereafter Mr. Hans Hoogervorst left politics and in 2007 he started at the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM), where he was appointed Chairman of the Board. In 2011, he became Chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) in London and member of the Financial Stability Board.