Helen Hulspas is the coordinator for all Piet Zwart Institute master programmes, working alongside Yasmine Libberecht. From 2001 until April 2024, she served as Executive Assistant to the Executive Board at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. After that, she supported a project within the university’s Strategic Agenda, focused on developing more interdisciplinary and challenge-based forms of education.

Since 2001, she has also been the secretary/member of the university’s Art Committee, helping to care for and manage a beautiful collection of around 250 works by former Willem de Kooning Academy students.