Maurice Jansen is a senior researcher and educator at Erasmus Centre for Urban Port and Transport Economics in Rotterdam. He was born in 1974 in the port town of Vlaardingen in The Netherlands and completed his MSc in Business Administration in 1997 with a specialisation in Strategy and Environment at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Maurice conducts research projects and provides policy advice on port competition, human capital in port development, stakeholder management and game design. As educator Maurice coordinates the Minor Port Management & Maritime Logistics and develops educational games. He teaches to students and port, supply chain and transport professionals and has a keen interest in zero waste supply chains, carbon neutrality and digitisation in ports and shipping.
Before he joined Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2018, he was innovation manager at the maritime academy Shipping and Transport College (STC-Group) where he also directed the MSc Shipping and Transport at the Netherlands Maritime University of Applied Sciences. Earlier in his career he was also supply chain solutions developer at freight forwarding company UTi Worldwide, and transport consultant at KPMG Consulting. Maurice enjoys working and exchanging new ideas with passionate people on the interface between port-city, business and sustainability. In his free time, he is either exploring port-cities on his bicycle or spending time on the water on a sup or windsurf board.