Bas Savenije

Bas Savenije

National Library of the Netherlands
Director general

Bas Savenije graduated in philosophy in 1977. Since then, he has held a range of positions at Utrecht University, among which director of Strategic Planning and director Budgeting and Control. From 1994 until 2009 he was university librarian of Utrecht University, managing the comprehensive university library. He has initiated a pervasive innovation program for the library aimed at implementing and continuously improving electronic services. One of the results is an e-press within the university library of Utrecht for electronic publishing and archiving services.

Since June 2009 Bas is Director General of the KB, National Library of the Netherlands. At the KB his emphasis is on digital library services and the national information infrastructure.

He is (among others) chairman of FOBID (the Dutch Federation of Organisations in the Field of Libraries, Information and Documentation).