Diana van Hout is Professor Procedural Tax Law at Radboud University and Assistant Professor at Tilburg University. Furthermore, she is a deputy judge at the Higher Tax Court in ’s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands. She wrote her PhD thesis about mediation in tax disputes, which was acclaimed best thesis of 2012 and 2013 by the Dutch Association of Tax Scholars. Her areas of expertise are procedural tax law (including taxpayers’ rights, big data and enforcement) and dispute resolution (including alternative dispute resolution, preventing disputes and compliance).