About

Besides his function as a treasurer in the IIJE Board, Jos is currently first vice-president of the International Union of judicial officers (UIHJ), an international organization over 100 national organizations from 98 member countries. He is an enforcement agent in the Netherlands.

During the past 25 years Jos has been mainly active as a legal reform and legal drafting expert in numerous countries within Europe, Africa and Asia, mainly in the field of civil procedure law, enforcement law and digitization/ AI. He works for several international organizations such as the European Commission, IMF, World Bank, EBRD, European Law Institute and USAID as well as national Government institutes. Currently active in the Western Balkan region, Azerbaijan, Mongolia, Laos and different EU (candidate) member states.

He has been active as a lecturer at the Dutch University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht, the Netherlands, the Prishtina State University and as a guest lecturer at different universities and judicial academies. He has taught courses on (international) enforcement, human rights, digitization in the field of justice, capacity building, strategy development, management and Train the Trainer programs. Jos is/has been active in several project working groups of international organizations (among: the Project Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets, the project Blockchain and Smart Contracts of the European Law Institute; the Unidroit project on principles for effective enforcement and as a member of the External Advisory Panel of the EBRD project Cross-Regional Court Performance Assessment).

Prior to becoming an attorney, Gary worked as an executive producer, director and writer for the documentary unit of a U.S. based international broadcast news organization.