Part-time Executive Master in Customs and Supply Chain Compliance

Ruud Tusveld is the partner in charge of the Dutch Customs & International Trade practice of PwC, leader of the PwC EMEA Customs & International Trade group, and global co-ordinator for the customs network worldwide as a member of the global indirect tax leaderships team of PwC. Ruud is involved in customs consultancy of any kind, but specialises in customs regime aspects related to distribution and production of goods such as customs warehousing, processing reliefs and centralised solutions, and customs valuation in relation to transfer pricing and excises. In all cases, this is combined with advise on the related main international VAT aspects.

Walter de Wit is professor of international and European customs law at Erasmus School of Law, and partner at Ernst & Young, where he advises clients on indirect taxed and international trade. He is programme director and tutor on the Post-master in EU Customs Law and is a core faculty member in RSM’s Master in Customs and Supply Chain Compliance programme.

Harwin de Vries is Assistant Professor at the Technology and Operations Management department at RSM. His research focuses on health & humanitarian logistics, with a particular focus on disaster relief logistics and the logistics behind enhancing access to essential medicines and health services in LMICs. Harwin has collaborated closely with more than twenty humanitarian/ health organizations, studying how key decisions in health/ humanitarian supply chains (e.g., location, inventory, routing, planning, allocation, or assignment decisions) affect patients or beneficiaries and how they could be improved. He particularly explores the potential role of data and prescriptive analytics and new business and operating models in the sectors (e.g., service delivery through mobile health units).

Dr Ziv Baida is an Executive consultant in government and international trade related IT and data analytics developments. He has worked for large organisations such as IBM and Altares Dun & Bradstreet. He is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Luxembourg in the field of Digital Transformation, and owner of the advisory company Insights Unboxed.

Frank Heijman is Head of Trade Relations at the Netherlands Customs and the director of the National Committee on Trade Facilitation in the Netherlands. He is the co-author of the book Customs, Inside Anywhere Insights Everywhere, which discusses the advanced vision of Customs that was developed in the last decade through extensive research within European innovation projects such as Cassandra and CORE. Frank is a lecturer and thesis supervisor in the MSc on Customs and Supply Chain Compliance.

Albert Veenstra is the director of the Dutch Institute for Advanced Logistics, Dinalog, and professor in international trade facilitation and logistics at Eindhoven University of Technology. He was senior business consultant at TNO from 2011 to 2014. Before joining TNO he was an assistant professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Albert has extensive experience in the field of multimodal freight transport and synchromodality as well as in international freight transport and logistics. He was part of the scientific co-ordination team of a large integrated project in the seventh framework research programme of the EU: CASSANDRA. Albert is the academic director of RSM’s Master in Customs and Supply Chain Compliance programme.

Rob Zuidwijk is a professor of ports in global networks at RSM. He teaches about freight transport systems, intermodal transportation, international logistics and supply chain management, and interorganisational systems in logistics. His work has been published in journals such as California Management Review, Transportation Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Communications of the ACM, and Production and Operations Management. He has participated and co-ordinated research in international logistics and container transport.

Joris Hulstijn is researcher in responsible AI at the University of Luxemburg. He has a background in information systems and IT auditing. His research relates to model-based auditing, continuous control monitoring and their applications in regulatory compliance and e-government. He is a core faculty member in RSM’s Master in Customs and Supply Chain Compliance programme.

Yao-Hua Tan is a professor of information and communication technology at the ICT group of the department of technology, policy and management of Delft University of Technology. He is co-ordinator of the EU-funded integrated research project ITAIDE on IT innovation to facilitate international trade. His research interests are service engineering and governance: ITC-enabled electronic negotiation and contracting; multi-agent modelling to develop automation of business procedures in international trade. Yao-Hua is also the programme director of RSM’s Master in Customs and Supply Chain Compliance programme.

Philip Eskenazi teaches philosophy of science at Rotterdam School of Management. He obtained his M.A. in philosophy at King’s College London and his PhD at RSM, investigating the neurological underpinnings of management control issues, and his research has been published in journals such as Accounting, Organisations & Society. Philip has developed programmes in Executive Education for corporate customers and open enrolment and currently teaches executives on scientific thinking and organizational decision making.

Merieke Stevens is an Associate Professor of Operations Management at the department of Technology & Operations Management, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. Merieke's research focuses on supply chain coordination to improve outputs--economic but also societal and environmental. She is particularly interested in how trust and digital tools can increase supply chain transparency and inclusiveness. Merieke lived in Japan for several years, where she conducted extensive on-site research in the automotive industry. She retains her automotive focus, but applies her experience to other settings such as medical teams, and infrastructure asset management.

Marcel Ludema is a Lecturer and Researcher at the faculty of Technology, Policy & Management, TU-Delft. He focuses on current and future innovations in logistics and supply chain. Marcel is particularly interested in the inter-company perspective in supply chain, in coordination and information sharing to increase supply chain transparency. He is also interested in supply chain gaming, systems engineering and supply chain design. Marcel studied architecture and has been active in politics in the field of infrastructure and transport. As a freelance consultant he is currently consulting the city of Amsterdam in the area of construction logistics.

Sanne Taekema's research addresses various themes in legal philosophy and methodology. Two core themes are the rule of law, especially in a transnational context, and the methodology of legal and interdisciplinary research. Other interests include: general issues of legal theory, particularly the role of values in jurisprudence and legal pragmatism, and law and literature. She is one of the editors-in-chief of the journal Law and Method. Her current research focus is on the rule of law in the context of the research initiative Public and private interests: A new balance.

Dr Andrew Grainger is a trade facilitation practitioner, academic and educator with over 20 years of experience. His research focuses on the wider area of international trade logistics, including trade facilitation, customs and port resilience. He is particularly interested in the interface between business and government as well as the evaluation of related transaction costs, espeically frictions at borders and Non Tariff Measures.

Morteza Pourakbar is an associate professor at the Department of Technology and Operations Management at Rotterdam School of Management. His main research interests are risk and security management in global supply chains and after-sales service parts inventory management.