Name: Tom Smit
Year of birth: 1949
Nationality: Dutch
Occupation: Director of Royal Haskoning's Spatial Development Division and Senior Management Consultant
Professional education
University of Leiden, Master’s degree in Dutch Law (1973)
Career
- 2002 – to date: Director, Spatial Development Division, Haskoning Nederland B.V., Royal Haskoning
- 2001 – 2002: Director, Water Division, Haskoning Nederland B.V., Royal Haskoning
- 1998 – 2001: Director, Environment Division, HASKONING Ingenieurs- en Architectenbureau (since 2001 Haskoning Nederland B.V., Royal Haskoning)
- 1994 – 1998: Managing Partner and Interim Manager, Twijnstra Gudde Management Consultants
- 1990 – 1994: General Manager, The Association of Water Boards
- 1986 – 1990: Secretary - Director, Limburg Water and Sewage Treatment Board
- 1980 – 1986: Head of General Administrative Legal Affairs for Environmental Management and Head of External Security for the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM)
- 1976 – 1980: Policy official and Head of Legislation and Administrative Affairs, Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management
- 1973 – 1976: Lecturer in Constitutional Law, Catholic University of Nijmegen
Work Experience
A selection of major projects for which overall responsibility as project leader, project manager or project director was held:
- Environmental Management Legislation
- Linking Building and Environmental Legislation
- Deregulation of VROM regulations
- Evaluation of Environmental Management Legislation
- Design of Greek legislation on the environment, public housing and land registry
- Setting up the Romanian Department for Economic Regulation in their VROM Department (commission from the World Bank)
- Project on Water Legislation in Bosnia Herzegovina aimed at teaching three cultural entities how to work together again (commission from the EU and EBRD)
- Project on the Evaluation of the Enschede Firework Disaster (responsible for the substantive technical and administrative legal part of the investigation by and for the Oosting Committee).
- Maasvlakte 2 Project (responsible for the Construction Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), the Zoning EIA and the Zoning Plan; 165 people worked on this; budget 6 million euros).
- Project on Area-specific Environmental Policy (set up of VROM organisation, the Directorates General for Housing, the Environment and Spatial Planning led by Secretary General, Marianne Sint)
- Waterdunen Project (Development planning in Zeeland-Flanders)
- Riverstone Project in Rheden (Site and area development for landowner and Rheden local authority)
- Various site and area development projects in virtually all the provinces in the Netherlands (from expansion sites to restructuring of inner cities)
