Wouter Jacobs

Wouter Jacobs has been a Senior Researcher at the Erasmus Centre for Urban, Port and Transport Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam, and founded the Erasmus Commodity & Trade Centre, serving as its executive director. He completed his PhD in 2007 and has coordinated the university's MSc programmes in Urban Port & Transport Economics and Maritime Economics & Logistics for over a decade.

In 2019 he won a five-year contract to develop the Maritime Studies Programme Abroad for Nanyang Technological University, and from 2018 he coordinated an MSc elective on commodity trade and supply networks at Rotterdam School of Management.

He spoke as a panellist at Mare Forum events on Singapore and commodities, including the 2nd Mare Forum Singapore (2016), the 1st Mare Forum Commodities (2015) and the 2nd Mare Forum Commodities Transportation (2016).