Willem Oosterveen took up office as the new Director of the IOPC Funds on 1 November 2006. Mr Oosterveen has a long association with the IOPC Funds, having been Chairman of the 1971 Fund Executive Committee from 1995 to 1998 and of the 1992 Fund Assembly from 1999 to March 2005. As Senior Legal Advisor to the Netherlands Ministry of Justice, he has represented the Netherlands in numerous negotiations in a variety of international organisations since 1990, mainly concerning transport, environmental, liability and electronic commerce law. Since 1999, he has also been a part-time judge at the Court of Appeal in The Hague.