Liesbeth Tuininga-Muilwijk

With around 92,000 employees in more than 70 countries around the world, Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies. Organising and managing the real estate, business operations and travel interests of this worldwide corporation is the vital mission of Shell Real Estate.

Liesbeth Tuininga-Muilwijk, Finance Manager for Real Estate, Business Operations and Corporate Travel, says that it’s a challenging and invigorating area to work in. “Shell Real Estate covers a diverse range of elements we need to consider, from strategic planning to construction projects, lease transactions, and facility management. We provide support for Shell’s major hydrocarbon projects, which entails the design of the infrastructure that supports the hydrocarbon activities as well as the accommodation of workers in a number of remote locations around the globe.

“Besides those core real estate activities, we are also responsible for Shell’s business operations. Shell has a long tradition of concentrating some of its activities in focused centres around the world—a so-called in-house captive where we now have more than 11,000 people working from six different locations around the globe. Activities in business operations include finance, HR, contracting and procurement, IT, and customer services.

“Apart from real estate and business operations, I am also responsible for the financial management of our corporate travel department where we manage all our contracts with hotels, airlines and traveller safety.”