of Islam and having a fatwa issued, and persuaded her to switch allegiance from the social democratic PvdA to the VVD. Corporate boards Uber, Member of the Public Policy Advisory Board Salesforce, Non-Executive Board Board of Directors (since 2016) Non-profit organizations Open Data Institute, Non-Executive Member of the Board (since 2015) Recognition Awards Kroes was International Road Federation Man of the Year of 1993. Kroes made the Forbes' The World's 100 Most Powerful Women list multiple times: as number 53 in 2009, 47 in 2008, 59 in 2007. Decorations Honorary degrees References External links Official Dr. N. (Neelie) Kroes Parlement & Politiek 1941 births Living people Businesspeople from Rotterdam Dutch academic administrators Dutch corporate directors Dutch chief executives in the finance industry Dutch European Commissioners Dutch expatriates in Belgium Dutch financial advisors Dutch lobbyists Dutch members of the Dutch Reformed Church Dutch nonprofit directors Dutch nonprofit executives Dutch women academics 20th-century Dutch businesswomen 20th-century Dutch businesspeople Erasmus University Rotterdam alumni European Commissioners for Competition Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Orange-Nassau Knights of the Order of the Netherlands Lion Ministers of Transport and Water Management of the Netherlands Members of the House of Representatives (Netherlands) Merrill (company) people Municipal councillors of Rotterdam Academic staff of Nyenrode Business University People from Wassenaar People's Party for Freedom and Democracy politicians Protestant Church Christians from the Netherlands Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 2nd Class Rectors of universities in the Netherlands State Secretaries for Transport of the Netherlands Women European Commissioners Women government ministers of the Netherlands Women heads of universities and colleges 20th-century Dutch economists 20th-century Dutch educators 20th-century Dutch women politicians 20th-century Dutch politicians 21st-century Dutch businesswomen 21st-century Dutch businesspeople 21st-century Dutch economists 21st-century Dutch women politicians 21st-century Dutch politicians