- Director of the Board of the International Insolvency Institute (Toronto, Canada)
- Member of the Committee on Insolvency Law, advising the Dutch Ministry of Justice on the renewal of the Bankruptcy Act
- Member of the American Law Institute
- International Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy
- Member of the Core Group Academic Wing of INSOL Europe
- Chair Jury International Insolvency Institute Annual Prize for International Insolvency Studies
- Member of the Editorial Board International Insolvency Review
- Member of the Editorial Board Insolvency Intelligence
- Member of the Advisory Board LL.M in Bankrupty St. John's University, New York
- Member of the External Review Committee for the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy (OSB), Canada
- Member of Chief Editors SDU Wettenreeks
- Member of the Board of Editors SDU Commentaar Ondernemingsrecht
- Member of the editorial board Serie Praktijkhandleidingen (Kluwer)
- Editor for Tekst & Commentaar Insolventierecht
- Chair for the committee of supervision of the Working Party of 'Out of court insolvency law' ('Buitengerechtelijk Traject Faillissementsrecht') of the Scientific Research and Documentation Centre of Netherlands Ministry of Justice (WODC) (2003-2004)
- In the academic years 1993-1995 Chairman for the Civil Law Department Faculty of Law, Vrije University Amsterdam. From 1991 to 1999 I supervised seven Ph.D projects
- 1984 - 1991: independent member of the Working Party on Supplementary
Pensions of the Social-Economic Council (Sociaal-Economische
Raad), which led to reports on issues such as (i) interim measures
relating to breach of pension entitlements, (ii) pension entitlement
after divorce, (iii) equal treatment of men and women in pension
entitlement schemes, and (iv) revision of the General Widows' and
Orphans' Benefits Act
- In 1991 Independent member of the Working Party 'Debt rescheduling
natural persons' of the Social-Economic Council (Sociaal-Economische
Raad)
- Collaborator of the Private Pensions Review - Tijdschrift voor
Pensioenvraagstukken (1985 - 1990)
- Collaborator of the Company Management Review - Tijdschrift
voor Ondernemingsbestuur
- Collaborator of the Insolvency Law Review - Tijdschrift voor Insolventierecht
- Member of the editorial board of the Monthly Review on Property Law - Maandblad voor Vermogensrecht
- Member of the editorial board of Property Law Annotations - Vermogensrechtelijke annotaties
- Collaborator of the Arbitration Law Review - Tijdschrift voor Arbitrage, Netherlands Review on Civil Law - Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Burgerlijk Recht (NTBR), Netherlands Review of Trade Law - Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Handelsrecht (NTHR)
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