February 26, 2015 - ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the world's leading natural and built asset design & consultancy firm, today announced that Michiel P. Lap has accepted to be nominated for appointment to the company's Supervisory Board for a four year term. The appointment will be put before shareholders at the upcoming General Meeting of Shareholders in May 2015. With this appointment ARCADIS fills a long term vacancy in its Supervisory Board. 


Michiel Lap retired in August 2014 from Goldman Sachs Inc., where he served as Managing Director and Partner, and Head of Northern European Investment Banking activities. In that position he led cross-product and multi-jurisdictional teams advising some of Europe's largest corporations, financial institutions, and governments on mergers and acquisitions, capital market transactions, risk management, and shareholder relations. Prior to 2004, Mr. Lap was Executive Vice President and Executive Board member at telecoms firm Orange S.A., from 2001 through 2003; Managing Director, Investment Banking Division at Morgan Stanley & Co, London, from 1988 to 2001; and Assistant Vice President, Corporate Banking at J.P. Morgan, in London and New York from 1984 to 1988. Mr Lap holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from Harvard University.


The Supervisory Board nomination is subject to shareholder approval during the upcoming General Meeting of Shareholders to be held on May 13, 2015 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The documents for this shareholder meeting will be published on ARCADIS' website at www.arcadis.com as of early April 2015.


"I am pleased that Michiel Lap is willing to join our board. His extensive international experience, and knowledge of the financial world are important to our company as we expand. I look forward to working with him on the further development of ARCADIS," said Niek Hoek, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of ARCADIS.


For more information please contact Joost Slooten at +31 (0) 20 2011083, or outside office hours at +31 (0) 6 27061880 or joost.slooten@arcadis.com:
mailto:joost.slooten@arcadis.com


About ARCADIS: ARCADIS is the leading global natural and built asset design & consultancy firm working in partnership with our clients to deliver exceptional and sustainable outcomes through the application of design, consultancy, engineering, project and management services. ARCADIS differentiates through its talented and passionate people and its unique combination of capabilities covering the whole asset life cycle, its deep market sector insights and its ability to integrate health & safety and sustainability into the design and delivery of solutions across the globe. We are 28,000 people that generate €3 billion in revenues. We support UN-Habitat with knowledge and expertise to improve the quality of life in rapidly growing cities around the world. Please visit: www.arcadis.com:
http://www.arcadis.com/



ARCADIS announces Michiel P. Lap for nomination:
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