Geert-Jan van Bussel is a certified archivist and holds a Ph.D. in information and archival studies. He is Assistant Professor (Digital Archiving & Compliance) at [1] the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and [2] the University of Amsterdam. He is director of an international consultancy on enterprise information management, digital archiving and governance and member of the board of several ICT companies. He is one of the leading archival science scholars in the Netherlands, He developed a new theoretical framework for archival science (the framework of the Archive-as-Is). His research is currently concentrated on elaborating this framework.