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Kooyker was born on September 22, 1942 in Leeuwarden, Friesland, a northern province of the Netherlands, one of three sons of Willem Kooijker....

baruch college | zicklin school of business

November 9, 2022

Willem Kooyker (BBA, ’71), who endowed the deanship of the Zicklin School of Business in gratitude for the free education he received from the school as a young Dutch immigrant, has died.

Kooyker, who studied economics in night classes at what was then known as City College Downtown, died on November 3 in Manhattan after a brief illness. The founder and chair of Blenheim Capital Management, LLC (which closed when he retired in 2018), Kooyker came to New York City more than 50 years ago as an analyst for a Dutch spice trading company.

By day, he exchanged commodities of cocoa, coffee, and sugar, and by night he studied economics in the business school of Baruch College, which was then tuition-free.

In a profile written for the centennial of the founding of the School of Business, Kooyker called Baruch “my launching pad.” For the rest of his life, he exp