Jan F. van Eck 

Jan F. van Eck 

Principal and Director, Van Eck Associates Corporation

Executive Vice President and Director, Van Eck Securities Corporation

President and Director, Van Eck Absolute Return Advisers Corporation

President, Chief Executive Officer and Trustee, Market Vectors ETF Trust

• Joined Van Eck in 1992.
• Heads alternative, international and institutional businesses for Van Eck.
• Also heads Van Eck's Market Vectors ETF business, which was launched in 2006.
• Has created a variety of international, emerging markets and commodity-related investment strategies in mutual fund, ETF, and alternative investment formats.
• Serves on investment committee for Van Eck VIP Multi-Managers Alternatives Fund.
• From 1994 to 1998, he established a fund management joint venture with Shenyin Wanguo Securities, one of the largest securities firms in China.
• Fellowship at The Council of Institutional Investors, focusing on shareholder rights, 1990.
• JD, Stanford University, 1991; BA (Phi Beta Kappa), Economics, Williams College, 1985.

Derek S. van Eck, CFA 

Principal and Director, Van Eck Associates Corporation

Principal and Director, Van Eck Securities Corporation

Chief Investment Officer, Van Eck Associates Corporation

•  Joined Van Eck in 1993.
• Serves as lead investment team member of Van Eck Global Hard Assets Fund, Van Eck VIP Global Hard Assets Fund and Van Eck’s long/short hard assets strategy products; also responsible for oversight of investment process and risk controls and for hiring investment team members.
• From 1986 to 1988, a fixed income arbitrage analyst at CS First Boston, responsible for hedging mortgage-backed securities.
• Serves on boards of Fred M. van Eck Forest Trust, managed in conjunction with Pacific Forest Trust, and of Institute for the Future of China.
• Member of New York Society of Security Analysts and Association of Investment Management and Research (AIMR).
• Quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Institutional Investor; has appeared on CNBC.
• MBA, J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management (Northwestern), 1993; BA, Economics, Williams College, 1986.