Wouter graduated at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in December 2006. During his studies in Business Administration he mastered in Supply Chain Management and he took additional courses on Project Finance (Erasmus) and Strategic Design of Airport Systems (TU Delft). With his master thesis “Container Terminal Benchmarking using Data Envelopment Analysis”, Wouter won first prize in the Port Thesis Contest 2006, organized by the Academic Centre TransPORT, a cooperation between the Universities and the Municipalities of Rotterdam and Delft and the Port of Rotterdam.