Niek Brunsveld is Team lead, Research & Innovation policy, at the Executive Staff of the University of Amsterdam.

In this role, Niek leads the team of policy advisors on research and innovation policy, and coordinates university-wide initiatives on such matters as research priority areas, interdisciplinary research initiatives, cooperation with public and private partners, research integrity and ethics. He is scientific secretary of the University Research Advisory Council.

Next to his work for the Executive Staff Niek is part-time assistant professor in the ethics of economics and business at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Amsterdam.

Niek obtained

• an MBA (Bentley University, USA), 
• a PhD in the Philosophy of Religion (Faculty of Humanities, Utrecht University),
• an Advanced Master in Theology and Religious Studies (K.U.Leuven, Belgium),
• a Master in Theology/Ethics (Utrecht University), and
• a degree in Ministerial Education (PThU, the Netherlands).

Niek has worked as project manager / policy advisor at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, and at the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the Hague.

Niek was (guest) lecturer at Rotterdam School of Management, Utrecht University and Bentley University.