Bart van Leeuwen combines a unique set of experience in the fire service, IT industry and academia, which allows him to provide fresh perspectives on issues involving data usage and human factors.

He is an expert on human factors, situational awareness and the high-risk decision-making processes used in high-stress, high consequence work environments. He is part of the Situational Awareness Matters! team as a certified master instructor serving Europe, Middle East, and Asia.

He is serving for more than 25 years in the Dutch fire service in various positions in both career and part-time fire departments. He currently serves as a company officer in a large career fire department. Previously, he served as an instructor and has been involved in various innovative projects at various departments.

At Netage B.V. he leads a team of data specialists constantly looking for smarter ways of dealing with available data for the fire service. He has served on various data standard bodies, helping shape important standards and recommendations both in the fire industry and beyond.

He is a group associate at the User Centric Data Science group at VU University in Amsterdam where is a regular lecturer on the subject of data in the fire service.