Charles Citroen (born 1939) studied at Amsterdam
University where he obtained an MSc (doctorandus) degree in organic chemistry.
In May 2009 he obtained his PhD at Twente University
in business administration.
Charles was a senior advisor for information
management at the Library of the Delft
University of Technology from 1994 to 2003. The Delft Library is the
National Technical Library in The Netherlands and as such provides services to
the University faculty and students, but to a large extent also to government
and industry. His main function was offering consultancy for projects in
information management and library facilities aimed at improving information
services in research organisations and technical industries.
Before that he was head of the Centre for
Information and Documentation at TNO, the Netherlands’ research organisation.
Charles’s information management projects took him to countries such as
Hungary, China, India and Eritrea.
From 1973 to 2009 he acted as the secretary of the
Netherlands Association of Information Managers (NIC), an independent group of
managers of information departments of major industrial and technological
companies and organisations and universities.
Charles is a Fellow of the UK Institute of Information Scientists, (Now CILIP), Member of
the Advisory Council of the journal ‘Informatie Professional’
After his retirement in 2003 he started work on a
PhD research project at Twente University. The title of the
dissertation is ‘Strategic decision-making processes: The role of information’
The target group for the project were executives in the chemical and food
processing industry in The Netherlands and Germany. The pdf file of the
dissertation (April 2009) is found here.
An article based on this research was published in March/November 2011 in
the International Journal of Information Management, (31 (2011), 493-501). The doc file of the text is available here.
Charles is married to Elly, also known as
Elisabeth. They have a daughter, Mieke who lives in Boston (and a
granddaughter, Karin), and a son, Paul. .
In his spare time Charles is a member of Probus and the IJsselweide Golf Club. Together they cycle all
over the countryside, play bridge, read a lot, care
for the garden and travel all over the world as shown on these photographs from
Yangzhou (China) and Iceland.
