Resume
Experience
2020 - Present
ETHICS & COMPLIANCE CONSULTANT
Self-employed
Amsterdam
An independent consultant with a mission: supporting companies in ethical decision making and empowering their employees to do right. Driving change by challenging status quo, facilitating conversation and providing practical short and long term solutions that have impact on the company culture grounded in vast experience in developing and running ethics and compliance programs. Example of recent work:
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Supporting a start-up after an incident in defining their company values, renewing their code of conduct and raise awareness on the topic with the use of training
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Interim project manager Speak Up Program in Financial Sector
2014 - 2020
SENIOR MANAGER ETHICS & COMPLIANCE
Booking.com
Amsterdam
Primary responsible for the ethics and compliance program at Booking.com. Functioned as the Interim Head of Compliance for Booking.com as of October 2019, reporting directly to the Global Ethics & Compliance Officer at Booking Holdings. Designed and implemented the current ethics and compliance program. Elements that I was responsible for and contributed to the success of the program were extensive ethics, risk and compliance data analysis resulting in a data-driven approach, effective and collaborative stakeholder partnerships and implementing ethics and compliance in several business processes (i.e. recruitment, performance management, management development, risk assessment, training and internal communications).
2008 - 2014
CONSULTANT ETHICS & COMPLIANCE
KMPG (4 years) & BDO (2,5 years)
Advised a wide range of clients in several industries on measuring culture and behavior and improving their ethical climate. Work included:
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Creating an ethics and compliance strategy and program
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Assessing and providing advice on company culture and ethical climate
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Implementation of core values and design of tailored awareness-raising activities
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Forensic investigations in response to irregularities within organisations
Education
2023 - 2024
Permacultuurcentrum Den Haag
Permaculture design
In a one-year course I mastered the principles for permaculture design and bringing them to practise on our land in Overijssel.
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I completed the course with a diploma in permaculture design.​
2003 - 2008
University of Leiden
Master of Science - Criminology
Post-propaedeutic study Criminology at the University of Leiden. Master in Law Enforcement and Security Policy obtained in 2009. My master thesis concerned a study into the preventive effect of various cultural elements within organizations on the degree of undesirable behaviour.
The study criminology deals with explanations for the presence of crime or undesirable behavior with the use of different perspectives (psychology, (criminal) law, sociology and policy).
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In 2007 I took a year to study at the University of Bologna - the oldest university in the world - in the faculty of Law.
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2003 - 2007
University of Leiden
Propedeuse and extra courses - Psychology
Study Psychology at the University of Leiden. Obtained propaedeutic certificate in 2004 and continued with the post-propaedeutic study Criminology.
After completing my first year, I kept following courses in the direction of Social and Organizational Psychology with a focus on courses on group dynamics and leadership.