About Joost Hintjens

Joost Hintjens (°1962) got his master degree in  Commercial  Engineering at the University of Antwerp in 1986 and started a career in the industry while getting his Master in  Management  at the University of Ghent in 1993. He worked for several  mid-sized  European industrial companies with a focus on international marketing and logistics. He was general manager of companies in Belgium, Holland and Czech Republic for a French industrial group when he switched to teaching in 2002. First  part-time  at the Atheneum in Antwerp but from 2006  full-time  as lecturer Logistics at the ArtesisPlantijn University College. He is currently chair of the course group Logistics at ArtesisPlantijn and researcher at the University of Antwerp at the department Transport and Regional Economics where he is focusing on the role of ports in the supply chain. He promoted in November 2019 with a doctoral dissertation on port cooperation. His interest goes  to the role of logistics at  mid-sized  companies and the relations with their clients and suppliers in  controlling  the supply chain and in the threats and opportunities the New Silk Road presents.

Department

• Department of Transport and Regional Economics

Statute & functions

Bijzonder academisch personeel

• gastlector