Valentijn de Leeuw's responsibilities include research and consulting in the process industries, with a concentration on clients in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. De Leeuw's focus areas include organizational change and effectiveness, business process improvement, value-based performance management, governance, project management, knowledge management, operations management, asset management, innovation and engineering, and manufacturing IT.
His technology focus is on manufacturing operations, performance, and supply chain management, as well as the role of the knowledge worker in manufacturing. De Leeuw has extensive experience in best management practices in process industries, including chemical, polymer, metals, energy, food, pharmaceutical, and petroleum manufacturing. His experience includes knowledge of unit processes, simulation, and modeling, and business practices utilizing application software designed for manufacturing operations.
De Leeuw serves as point of contact for ARC's Benchmarking Consortium in Europe and acts as an independent expert-evaluator of research projects for the European Commission in the Information and Communication domains. De Leeuw holds a Ph.D. in technical sciences from Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands (in cooperation with Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris and IFP) and a master’s degree in chemistry from Utrecht State University, The Netherlands.