I am professor at the University of Groningen and the University of Gothenburg. My research focuses on the ethical and legal dimensions of business, human rights, and sustainability, with particular attention to climate change, biodiversity, and finance. I also explore the ethical, political, and legal aspects of information, including epistemic injustice, the ethics of belief, virtue epistemology, and stereotypes, and their applications in finance, healthcare, and ICT. My work further engages with ethics management in organizations and the philosophical foundations of liberalism and republicanism, especially in relation to privacy, marketing regulation, and media ethics.
I hold master’s degrees in mathematics and philosophy and a PhD from the University of Amsterdam. My academic path also included studies in musical composition at the Academy of Music in Enschede (one-year talent programme), and I am currently studying law at the Open University of the Netherlands. I have held visiting appointments at Harvard Business School, the University of Cambridge, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), the Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme (Paris), UC Berkeley, and the University of Minho (Braga), and I am a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge.
I have published widely in academic journals, op-eds, and blogs, and authored three monographs. My research has received support from several national and international funding agencies, including collaborative projects on trust (with Alex Oliver, Cambridge), epistemic injustice (with Miranda Fricker, NYU), and mis- and disinformation. I have taught and supervised research on a broad range of topics in business ethics, corporate social responsibility, business and human rights, and sustainability, and have contributed to executive and professional education programmes for profit and non-profit organizations in the finance industry as well as AOG School of Management, Comenius, Cambridge Judge Business School, and the Blavatnik School of Government (Oxford). I currently serve on the board of the ethics, culture and behaviour faculty of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Chartered Accountants.