Dirk van de Put (born 1960) is a Belgian businessman, and the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Mondelez International. CEO since November 2017,^[3][4] he also became chairman in April 2018.^[1]

Van de Put is a native of Mechelen, Antwerp Province, Belgium, and has a veterinary medicine degree from Ghent University, and a master's degree in business from the University of Antwerp.^[5] He is fluent in Dutch, English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.^{[citation needed]}

Van de Put worked for Coca-Cola, Mars Inc, Novartis and Groupe Danone, before becoming CEO of the Canadian frozen foods manufacturer McCain Foods in 2010.^[3][4] He is a non-executive director of Mattel.^[1]

In November 2017, he succeeded Irene Rosenfeld as CEO of Mondelez International.^[3][4] He also became chairman in April 2018.^[1] He was hired by Mondelez with a reputation for driving growth in traditional packaged food brands. While Mondelez grew 1.5% in 2016 and 0.9% in 2017, Van de Put is promising organic revenue growth of 3% per year and is working to achieve this by increasing advertising spend and giving more responsibility to local marketing managers. In the third quarter of 2019, growth reached 4.2%, and operating profit for 2019 was increased by 20%.^[6]

Van de Put has Belgian and US citizenship.^[1]