René Jansen has found out his purpose to step down because the Chairman of the Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) whilst his time period ends on 1 October 2024.
Jansen has referred to as time on his function because the KSA’s Chairman because of his accomplishing retirement age on the give up of 2023.
The selection marks the give up of an technology for Jansen and the KSA, as he has served withinside the function on the grounds that 2018 – throughout which era he oversaw many regulatory and cultural shifts in regard to playing withinside the Netherlands.
On his selection to step down, Jansen said: “In current years I even have dedicated myself to the KSA’s challenge of secure play with fantastic power and pleasure.
“There are many fantastic demanding situations for the brand new chairman. The KSA has an crucial function as a manager and enforcer withinside the numerous gaming markets. This control function is challenging, calls for creativity, innovation and decisiveness, however in particular has fantastic social value.”
Alongside his function as Chairman of the KSA, Jansen is likewise the Chair of the Gaming Regulators European Forum (GREF), wherein he turned into the Vice-Chair from 2019-2021 – whilst he turned into appointed Chair.
The Minister for Legal Protection will hire Jansen’s successor, in a method on the way to be overseen with the aid of using the General Administrative Service, which has published the emptiness online.
The function software date closes on November eleventh and it comes with a one-time extension for any other six years – which Jansen has opted now no longer to take.
Earlier this year, Gambling Insider spoke to Jansen in a GI Huddle.