Aarnout Loudon

Jonkheer Aarnout Alexander Loudon (10 December 1936 – 9 September 2021) was a Dutch corporate executive and politician of the conservative-liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). Born in The Hague, he spent several years of his childhood in Japanese internment camps in the Dutch East Indies during World War II. He studied Dutch law at Utrecht University, and he began his career at Mees & Hope bank after his military service. In 1969, Loudon started working for the chemical conglomerate Akzo. He was its chief executive officer (CEO) from 1982 until 1994, when the company merged with Nobel. He served one term in the Senate between 1995 and 1999, and he sat on several supervisory boards, including those of AkzoNobel, ABN AMRO, and Royal Dutch Shell.