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Antonius Johannes Cornelius "Cor" Herkströter (born 21 August 1937) is a former chairman of Royal Dutch Shell.

Cor Herkströter was born in Venlo. He studied economics and accountancy at the School of Economics in Rotterdam (now Erasmus University Rotterdam). After graduating, he joined Billiton mining company which was latterly taken over by Shell. During his career at Shell he rose to the most senior executive position at the company, the Chairman of the Committee of Managing Directors, on 1 July 1993.

In 1996, he reorganized the central offices in The Hague and London and laboratories in Amsterdam and Rijswijk. He retired in 1998.

After his tenure at Royal Dutch Shell, he became President Commissioner of the ING Group.

References

Ali, Abbas J; Kaynak, Erdener (2012). Globalization of Business: Practice and Theory. Routledge. p. 226. ISBN 9781136782534.

Business positions
Preceded byPeter Fenwick Holmes	Chairman of the Committee of Managing Directors of Royal Dutch Shell 1993–1998	Succeeded byMark Moody-Stuart
Preceded byLo van Wachem	President-Director of Royal Dutch Petroleum Company 1992–1998	Succeeded byMaarten van den Bergh

Chief Executives of Shell

Pre-1946

Managing Director/ General MD of Royal Dutch Petroleum Company (1890-1946)	1890-1901 titled MD 1890–1892: Johannes Arnoldus de Gelder 1893–1900: Jean Baptiste August Kessler 1901–1902: Henri Wilhelm August Deterding 1902-1940 titled General MD 1902–1936: Henri Wilhelm August Deterding 1937–1940: Frits de Kok
Chairman of The Shell Transport and Trading Company (1897–1946)	1897–1921: Marcus Samuel 1921–1946: Walter Samuel

1946 to 2005

Chairman of the Committee of
Managing Directors of
the Royal Dutch / Shell Group

1946–1948 Guus Kessler
1949–1951 Barthold Theodoor Willem van Hasselt
1952–1965 John Hugo Loudon
1965–1970 Jan Brouwer
1970–1972 David Haven Barran
1972–1977 Gerrit Wagner
1977–1979 Carmichael Charles Peter Pocock
1979–1982 Dirk de Bruyne
1982–1985 Peter Brian Baxendell
1985–1992 Lodewijk Christiaan van Wachem
1992–1993 Peter Fenwick Holmes
1993–1998 Cor Herkströter
1998–2001 Mark Moody-Stuart
2001–2004 Philip Watts
2004–2005 Jeroen van der Veer

2005–present

Chief executive officer of: – Royal Dutch Shell plc (2005–2021) – Shell plc (as from 2022)	2005–2009 Jeroen van der Veer 2009–2013 Peter Voser 2014–2022 Ben van Beurden 2023–present Wael Sawan

Shell plc

Divisions and
subsidiaries

Current	Shell Australia QGC Shell Energy Australia Shell Canada Shell Chemicals Shell Gas & Power Shell Nigeria Shell USA
Former	Mexican Eagle MonteShell Shell Pakistan Showa Shell Sekiyu Woodside Petroleum

Joint ventures

Current	Aera Energy Albian Sands Brunei Shell Petroleum Brunei LNG North West Shelf Venture Oman LNG Pearl GTL Sakhalin Energy
Former	Anglo-Egyptian Oilfields Asiatic Petroleum Company Cellana Motiva Shell-Mex & BP

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