Frank Nellen (F.J.G.)

Frank Nellen is Associate Professor of VAT and Customs Law at Maastricht University and a director at Baker Tilly Netherlands NV, where he focuses on knowledge management and international tax advisory. From 2008 to 2016, he worked as a tax advisor at KPMG Meijburg & Co in Eindhoven. He is a member of the Dutch Association of Tax Advisors, and a guest lecturer at the VU University in Amsterdam and at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam (EFS programme).

Frank holds degrees in International Business (MSc, Maastricht University), Tax Economics (MSc, Tilburg University), and Tax Law (LL.M cum laude, Maastricht University). In 2017, he obtained his PhD in tax law from Maastricht University with a dissertation titled Information Asymmetries in EU VAT. He frequently speaks at seminars and conferences on tax law and regularly publishes in academic and professional journals. In 2024, he received the Jaap van den Berge Literature Prize for his academic publications.

Alongside his academic and professional work, Frank is also an author affiliated with the literary publishing house Overamstel / Holland Diep in Amsterdam. His second novel, De onzichtbaren (2023), won the Dutch Bookstore Prize and was shortlisted for the E. du Perron Prize, the Libris Literature Prize, and the Boekenbon Literature Prize. In 2025, he was appointed writer in residence at both Radboud University and Maastricht University.