Sebastiaan Rietjens Netherlands Defense Academy, Netherlands

Dr. Sebastiaan Rietjens, an engineer by training, is an associate professor at the Netherlands Defence Academy and a reserve major in the Netherlands army. He has done extensive fieldwork in military exercises and operations (Afghanistan, Mali) and has published accordingly in international books and journals including Disasters, Armed Forces & Society, International Journal of Public Administration and Construction Management and Economics. His main research focus is on civil-military interaction, intelligence, effectiveness of military operations as well as humanitarian and military logistics. Sebastiaan is a frequent speaker at international conferences and (research) institutes including NATO School, Australian Defence Forces Academy, Groningen University and Twente University. He is a member of the editorial boards of Armed Forces & Society, the Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management and editor of volumes on civil-military interaction (Ashgate, 2008; Springer, 2016), research methods in the military domain (Routledge, 2014) and a special issue on defence logistics (International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, 2013).