Taco van der Valk

Taco van der Valk was a Partner and attorney-at-law at AKD, specialising in international trade, the carriage of goods and persons, charter parties and bills of lading, and transnational litigation including arbitration, vessel arrests and shipowner liability. He was a graduate of Leiden University's law faculty.

He served 15 years as President of the Dutch Maritime and Transport Law Association, is a former board member of the Comité Maritime International, and has been secretary to the board of editors of the maritime journal Schip en Schade for nearly 20 years. He was a deputy justice at the 's-Hertogenbosch Court of Appeal's Trade Division and an Adjunct External Fellow at NUS's Centre for Maritime Law.

He spoke as a panellist at six Mare Forum events between 2014 and 2018, including Mare Forum Greece, Malta, Singapore and Dubai.