The team.
Andrew Tucker
Director
Andrew Tucker (1963) studied law in Australia (BA/LLB), UK (BCL) and The Netherlands, and has worked since 1988 as an adviser and consultant to private companies, governments and (semi-)public entities in various fields of international law.
Andrew was a Fellow of the Law Faculty of the University of Melbourne from 1994 to 2001, and Research Associate at the TMC Asser Institute in The Hague from 1996-1998. Based in The Netherlands, he is Principal of Tucker & Associates.
Andrew is co-author of ‘Israel on Trial’, Soest (NLD), thinc. (2018).
Email: a.tucker@thinc.info
Gregory Rose
Director research
Gregory Rose is a member of the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS) at the University of Wollongong, Australia, where he is Professor of Law and Chair of the University’s Academic Senate. He has served as Discipline Leader for the School of Law and as Chair of the University’s Thesis Examination Committee. His expertise is in international law, within which he has published widely concerning marine, environmental and counter-terrorism matters. He has conducted Australian government funded projects on detention operations and counter-terrorism legal training.
Greg has edited books on following the international proceeds of environmental crime, and on detention of insurgents and terrorists in international military operations. He is currently writing a book on transnational fisheries crimes.
Email: g.rose@thinc.info
Jeannette Gabay
Marketing and communications officer
Jeannette studied law and international law at the VU-University of Amsterdam. Her interest in Israel arose during her work for the Foreign Affairs Committee of the PerspectieF – Young Christian Union and for ECPYN, the European Christian Political Youth Network. After graduating, Jeannette moved to Israel and gained practical experience working as a marketing and client relations manager. She is passionate about empowerment through information and seeks to bridge the gap between in-depth legal research and comprehensibility for the wider public.
Email: j.gabay@thinc.info
Pieter Hoogendoorn
Chair Supervisory Board
Pieter Hoogendoorn (1951) studied Electronics, Mathematics and Computer Science at the Technical University of Delft. He graduated in 1979. After his studies he has worked i.a. for IBM and ACI Worldwide as senior consultant and project manager around the globe. His expertise includes biometrics IDentification, electronic payment systems and System Integration in Finance, Telecom and the Public sector.
From 2000-2010 he has worked as project manager in the UAE, Hong Kong, Singapore and Saudi Arabia.
Pieter is the founder and principal of Marites Consulting (2008) — a professional consultancy and (project) management company.
In 2017 he became co-founder and director of thinc. In 2022 he resigned from the MT and joined the Supervisory Board.
Email: p.hoogendoorn@thinc.info
Hans Weissenböck
Supervisory Board
Hans graduated as a mechanical engineer and subsequently studied business management at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. After a scholarship in South Africa, he worked in the IT sector, then in the packaging industry, and in the last 25 years of his career held senior management positions at a Swiss stock-listed, globally active group in the field of access control and locking systems. When Hans retired, he established a consulting company and has been engaged in European product standardization and EU legislation since. Currently, his main occupation is managing a European Industry Association.
Hans’ affection for Israel has developed over many years and is fostered not only by regular visits but especially by the work of Christians for Israel, where he has been secretary of the Austrian branch since its foundation.
Michiel Malatoux
Supervisory board
Michiel Malotaux was born in Delft, The Netherlands in 1946, and studied technical physics at the Delft Technical University. He has worked as a volunteer is Israel in 1977.
He spent his working life largely as a business-ICT expert, architect and strategic advisor for government institutions and international enterprises, retiring as VP Consulting and Client Principal European Institutions in 2011 at Gartner – a leading international business & ICT research and consulting firm.
After retirement, Michiel advised on business-ICT related matters in developing countries. He is Secretary of the Board of the Netherlands-Israel Chamber of Commerce.
Frank Fink-Jensen
Supervisory Board
Frank Fink-Jensen (1959) studied political and business economy (M. Sc. (Econ.) in Copenhagen, Denmark. Frank has held several positions in commerce and IT in Denmark and in the Netherlands.
Frank and family moved from Denmark to The Netherlands in 1991 and has worked within the powered cleaning equipment sector ever since.
Frank joined thinc. in November 2022 as secretary of the board
Matthijs de Blois
Senior Fellow
Dr Matthijs de Blois studied law at Utrecht University, graduating in 1977 with a Master of Laws. After 1977, he worked in the Law Faculty of Leiden University, in the Department of International Law, where he received his Ph.D. Since 1990, he has been an assistant professor at Utrecht University’s Institute of Legal Theory of the Law Faculty. His academic focus is the philosophical and historical aspects of the law, specifically the relationship between law and religion.
Matthijs lectures and writes frequently about the position of the State of Israel under international law, which has become the main focus of his research within the framework of thinc. He is co-author of ‘Israel on Trial’, Soest (NLD), thinc. (2018).
Email: m.deblois@thinc.info
Prof. Wolfgang Bock
Senior Fellow
Professor Wolfgang Bock studied Law and Political Science at the Universities of Geneva, Giessen and Frankfurt/Main. Since 1979 he worked as judge at the Frankfurt/Main Regional Court in civil and criminal matters as well as at the Wiesbaden Administrative Court. Bock obtained a doctorate at the Faculty of Law of the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University Frankfurt/Main in 1993, as well as a postdoctoral degree in Public Law (Habilitation) at the Faculty of Law of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. He worked as lecturer at the Centre for Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Marburg and as associate professor at the Justus Liebig University Giessen. Furthermore, he was a Counsellor for Constitutional and International Law at the Federal Academy for Security Policy covering the Near and Middle East and Islamic cultures. He writes and teaches on Constitutional Law und Security Law, on Islam, Islamic Cultures and Islamism, and on Policies and Legal Cultures in the MENA region.
Email: w.bock@thinc.info
Dr. Cynthia Day Wallace
Senior Fellow
Dr Cynthia Day Wallace, Ph.D. Cambridge, specializes in international economic law (esp. foreign direct investment). Former posts include Senior Adviser to the Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva; Senior Fellow and Project Director of the International Business and Economics Program, CSIS, Washington D.C.; and Deputy Executive Director of the Investment Negotiation Program, of the International Law Institute, Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
Authoring over 30 publications, including 10 books and monographs, she received the Grotius International Law Award for an article selected jointly by the U.N. Association and the T.M.C. Asser Institute, The Hague. She is an editor and contributing author to the Max-Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law. She is the author of ‘Foundations of the International Legal Rights of the Jewish People and the State of Israel ’.
Prof. Robbie Sabel
Advisory board
Professor Robbie Sabel Ph.D. is Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and Visiting professor at Tel Aviv University and IDC Herzliya. Prof. Sabel is Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague. Former positions include: Legal Adviser Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Foreign Ministry’s
Deputy Director General for Arms Control and Disarmament; MFA Coordinator for combatting Antisemitism; Head of Israel Delegation, Taba arbitration with Egypt. Prof. Sabel is Arbitrator on the Appeals Panel of the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims. His publications include Procedure in International Conferences, Cambridge Univ. Press, 3rd ed., January 2018, and International Law (with Yaël Ronen, Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University Jerusalem, 3rd edition 2016).
Prof. Dr. Li-ann Thio
Advisory board
Dr Li-ann Thio, Ph.D. (Cambridge), LL.M. (Harvard), B.A. Hons (Oxford), Barrister (G.I.) is Provost Chair Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. She teaches and researches on the fields of Constitutional and Administrative law, Comparative Constitutional Law in Asia, Human Rights in Asia and Public International Law.
She is currently Chief Editor, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies and Advisory Board Member, Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law. She was formerly General Editor, Asian Yearbook of International Law, Chief Editor, Singapore Journal of International & Comparative Law and Editor, International Journal of Constitutional Law. A prolific scholar, she has published more than 100 law review articles/book chapters and several books. Her monographs include Managing Babel: The International Legal Protection of Minorities in the Twentieth Century (2005) and A Treatise on Singapore Constitutional Law (2012).
Bertine van Vliet
Account manager
Bertine studied accounting at Hoornbeeck College in Amersfoort. She has worked as accounting officer for different organisations, currently in Banking.
Bertine is politically active for the local SGP (Dutch Reformed Political Party). Her interest in Israel developed over the years. During a conference on Israel and Europe in Brussels, she came into contact with thinc. and decided to sign up as volunteer in the operations dept.
Email: b.vanvliet@thinc.info
