• Date

    Thursday, 6 February 2020 - Friday, 7 February 2020

  • Location

    Bayle (J) Building, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University

The Customs and Supply Chain Compliance Alumni event on the evening of Thursday 6 and all day on Friday 7 February 2020 is an opportunity to meet the other alumni who have graduated from this programme, and to work on your professional development.

The whole event is €35 per person. Please register in advance so we know how many people to expect. You can also invite your colleagues and friends to join in for the networking opportunities and professional and industry information that this event will provide.

Thursday 6 February 2020

18:00 Welcome and buffet dinner

19:30 Drinks and networking

21:00 Close

Friday 7 February 2020

08:30 Welcome and registration

09:00 Opening by Prof. Albert Veenstra

09.15 Keynote address: "Managing for Trade Compliance"
Marc Gorter is Global Head Customs Duties at Unilever, Rotterdam. Marc's presentation will provide a good example on how customs leaders can develop a customs strategy and how to convince an organization about the impact of customs.

12.00 Lunch

13.00 Presentation by alumnus (Martijn van Kruining, Team Strategy and Innovation, Dutch Customs)

13.30 Presentation by alumnus (Liliia Korol, Trade & Customs Compliance Specialist, Van Oord)

14.00 Break

14.30 Presentation by alumnus (Liesbeth Kooijman, Hoofd Importkeuring, NVWA)

15.00 Keynote address "Findings from Customs Assessment"

 Reinier van der Lely is engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company in Amsterdam. Reinier is a RSM Alumnus. He is currently executing a comparative study on National Customs Organisations. He will disclose some pre-liminary insights and present  the ‘Findings from Customs Assessment’. It is not well-known that McKinsey & Company is working in the field of Customs and Trade Compliance and his presentation provides an opportunity to know about McKinsey’s views on Customs and Trade.

16:00 End of event

Organizing committee:

  • Prof. Albert Veenstra, Professor in Customs and Logistics and Academic Director of the Master in Customs and Supply Chain Compliance programme
  • Frank Heijmann, Dutch Customs
  • Laura Heringer, Grandvision (RSM Master in Customs 2017 – 2020)
  • Liliia Korol, Van Oord (RSM Master in Customs 2015 – 2017)