ARCADIS : shareholders appoint Michiel Lap to its Supervisory Board and re-appoint Neil McArthur as CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board

May 13, 2015 - ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the world's leading natural and built asset design & consultancy firm, announced that during today's Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, Mr. Michiel Lap was appointed to the company's Supervisory Board for a period of four years. In that same meeting, ARCADIS CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board Mr. Neil McArthur was re-appointed, also for a period of four years.

Michiel Lap (1962) retired in August 2014 from Goldman Sachs Inc., where he served as Managing Director, 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 held senior management positions at Orange S.A., Morgan Stanley & Co, and J.P. Morgan.

Neil McArthur (1961) has been a member of the ARCADIS Executive Board since September 2011 and took over as CEO of ARCADIS early 2012. Since that time, he has led the development of ARCADIS' sustainable growth | performance | collaboration strategy and implemented a new operating model. He also successfully led the integration of EC Harris and Langdon & Seah and completed two other large acquisitions: Callison, a leading 1,000 people design and architecture firm; and Hyder, a ~5,000 people international consulting engineering firm. Prior to 2011 Mr. McArthur was a Senior Partner and Executive Committee member at Booz & Company and started his career with Shell International Petroleum Exploration & Production.

Shareholders also approved the company's dividend proposal of €0.60 per ordinary share, a 5% increase over last year's dividend. All other resolutions that were brought up for vote were also accepted by the meeting.

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

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 more than €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:
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