B. Wessels

Bob Wessels (1949) is an independent legal counsel, advisor and arbitrator. He is emeritus professor of International Insolvency Law, University of Leiden, Leiden Law School, The Netherlands. He serves as consultant to IMF, World Bank and the European Commission. He advised with legal opinions or acted as an expert witness in European or international insolvency related questions in Dutch courts as well as courts in some ten other jurisdictions. He published some thirty books and reports, most recently the EU Cross-Border Insolvency Court-to-Court Cooperation Principles to assist European courts in their cross-border communication and cooperation in cross-border insolvency cases. Furthermore he is Deputy Justice at the Court of Appeal in The Hague, member of the Joint Board of Appeal of the three European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs; ESMA, EBA and EIOPA respectively); Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy; Member of both the American Law Institute and the European Law Institute; and Honorary Member of INSOL Europe.