Experience

Shift Project

• United States
• International Affairs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Deputy Director for Standards

  • Sep 2022 - Present



ABN AMRO Bank N.V.

• Netherlands
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Business & Human Rights Advisor

  • Jun 2016 - Aug 2022

  I coordinated the bank's human rights programme and the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, with a special focus on the bank's corporate clients and investments. In 2017, ABN AMRO was the first bank worldwide to publish a Human Rights Report following the UN Guiding Principles Reporting Framework and in 2021 the first company worldwide with assurance on a UNGP framework-aligned Human Rights Report. Also, I represented the bank in the Dutch Banking Sector Agreement on Human Rights between 2016 and 2019, which was a multistakeholder collaboration between banks, civil society organizations, trade unions and the government. I was a member of the Social Risk Working Group of the Equator Principles Association, and the EFRAG Expert Working Group on social issues in value chains, which adviced on the implementation of the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).



Leiden University

• Netherlands
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• PhD Fellow

  • Jul 2011 - May 2016

  My research focused on labour standards in global economic governance. It is part of the programme 'Securing the Rule of Law in a World of Multilevel Jurisdiction' of Leiden Law School and supervised by Professor Nico Schrijver. I look at the ways in which trade and investment and their respective legal frameworks influence the protection of labour rights, the regulatory responses by international organizations, states and multinational corporations to the problems that (may) arise in this context, and evaluate the legal implications of these measures.



University of Cambridge

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Scholar

  • Jan 2015 - Jul 2015

  I worked at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law as a visiting scholar on my PhD research I worked at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law as a visiting scholar on my PhD research



The Hague Institute for Global Justice

• Netherlands
• Think Tanks
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Visiting Researcher

  • May 2013 - Dec 2014

  The Hague Institute for Global Justice is an independent, nonpartisan organization established to conduct interdisciplinary policy-relevant research, develop practitioner tools, and convene experts, practitioners and policymakers to facilitate knowledge sharing. Through this work the Institute aims to contribute to, and further strengthen, the global framework for preventing and resolving conflict and promoting international peace. The Hague Institute for Global Justice is an independent, nonpartisan organization established to conduct interdisciplinary policy-relevant research, develop practitioner tools, and convene experts, practitioners and policymakers to facilitate knowledge sharing. Through this work the Institute aims to contribute to, and further strengthen, the global framework for preventing and resolving conflict and promoting international peace.



Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal

• Netherlands
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Policy Officer

  • Jun 2009 - Jun 2010

  I worked as a policy officer for a Member of Parliament in the field of corporate governance, corporate social responsibility and constitutional law. I worked as a policy officer for a Member of Parliament in the field of corporate governance, corporate social responsibility and constitutional law.



NIMD | Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy

• Netherlands
• Non-profit Organization Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Member of the Young NIMD Steering Committee

  • Jan 2009 - Jun 2010

  The Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD) was founded by seven Dutch political parties in order to assist political parties in new and developing democracies and to deepen and sustain young political systems. NIMD has supported over 150 political parties and democratic movements in more than 20 countries in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and the South Caucasus. NIMD engages directly with political parties to strengthen their organisations and bring parties around the table to discuss and agree on national reform agendas.



Kamer van Koophandel

• Netherlands
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Communications Advisor Public Affairs

  • Feb 2008 - May 2009