Dr. Jaap Kalkman is Group Chief Investment Officer at Abu Dhabi Developmental Holding Company (ADQ), focusing on managing ADQ’s portfolio in Utilities, Aviation, Logistics, Healthcare, Pharma, Media, Tourism, Real Estate, Manufacturing, Technology and Financial Services. He joined ADQ in April 2019.
Before that, Jaap was Managing Partner and Global Head of the Energy & Utilities Practice at Arthur D. Little, the world’s first management consulting firm. Jaap has more than 25 years of Consulting and Private Equity experience in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Jaap obtained his masters (1989) and PhD (1993) in Physics and Mathematics from Utrecht University in the Netherlands. After obtaining his PhD, he worked as postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Jaap started his consulting career in 1994 with McKinsey & Company in Amsterdam, where he became partner in 2000, after which he worked in Asia and the Middle East, based out of Manila, Singapore, Bahrain and Dubai.
From mid-2007 until early 2011, Jaap worked at Arcapita Bank, where he was Head of Infrastructure Investments for Asia and the Middle East. During that time, Jaap made the firm’s first investment into China in renewables and invested in infrastructure assets in the GCC.
Jaap lives with his wife, son and two daughters in the UAE.