About us

Wouter Van Haaften

Wouter van Haaften (1952) is an Associated partner at Hooghiemstra & Partners. Wouter specialises in the legal aspects of self-steering and cooperative vehicles particularly in data protection and data ownership. He is also a specialist in vehicle levies, such as the electronic vignettes and mileage levy, and the legal embedding of artificial Intelligence and the Internet or Things. Wouter gives strategic legal advice to both the public and the private side and always seeks solutions that lead to progress in the innovative environments in which he operates.

Wouter is a PhD candidate associated with the Leibniz Institute, a collaboration between the University of Amsterdam and TNO. For the institute he also supervises administrative legal development pathways in, for example, Smart Mobility and acts as a guest lecturer.

During his career at the Ministry of Finance as a legislative lawyer and as a project- and programme manager at the Tax Administration, The Ministry of Economic Affairs and the  ICT developing organization of the Dutch Government (ICTU), Wouter has been involved in the creation of the electronic tax declaration, The Electronic Administration Act and the various start-up routes of road pricing and mileage. Within the Directorate General for Tax Administration, his portfolio included the protection of personal data in the period prior to the introduction of the Citizen Service Number (BSN).

Wouter Van Haaften
Associated Partner

Wouter@Hooghiemstra-en-partners.nl

Our Team

Theo Hooghiemstra
Partner

Helen Hukshorn
Partner

Marlies van Eck
Partner

Thijs Drouen
Partner

Mariette Lokin
Principal Consultant

Walter van Holst
Senior Advisor

Lisanne Kramer
Senior Advisor

Renée Dekker
Advisor

Anna Keuning
Adviseur

Wimmy Choi
Junior Advisor

Lieve Smeets
Adviseur

Riëlle Osepa
Adviseur

Anna Visser
Manager Bedrijfsvoering- en Secretariaat

Lena Lopez
Junior Secretaresse

Elles van geest
Associated Partner

Pieter Ippel
Associated Partner

Wouter Van Haaften
Associated Partner

Ad van Loon
Associated Partner

Ingrid Morrema
Geassocieerd Partner