Appointment of Frank Nellen as Professor of Value Added Taxes and Supply Chain Levies
The Executive Board has appointed Dr Frank Nellen as Professor of Value Added Taxes and Supply Chain Levies as of 1 March 2026. He succeeds Ad van Doesum, who was appointed Justice in the Tax Chamber of the Dutch Supreme Court as of 1 January 2026.
Frank Nellen has been affiliated with the Faculty of Law since 2008, most recently as Associate Professor. In addition, he worked in practice, first at KPMG Meijburg and subsequently at Baker Tilly Netherlands. In his research, Frank focuses on the intersection of traditional VAT, customs law and other levies related to international supply chains.
In education, Frank will be primarily involved in the bachelor’s courses Kostprijsverhogende Belastingen and International and European Tax and Customs Law, as well as the master’s courses European Value Added Tax, Customs Law and International Supply Chain Taxation. He will bear particular responsibility for the specialisation in Indirecte Belastingen within the Master’s in Tax Law and for the specialisation in Customs and International Supply Chain Taxation within the Master’s in International and European Tax Law (IETL) and the Maastricht Centre for Taxation (MCT).
In addition to his work for the faculty, Frank is also a novelist.
Picture by Suzan Alberts.
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