Mr. Michael van Woerden is a lawyer (University of Leiden, 1986) and has extensive experience in the business world, having worked as a lawyer and corporate lawyer. He has held various legal and compliance management positions within the financial sector, including Head of Compliance NL - Global Markets, Global Clients & Group Functions at ABN Amro Bank. Since January 2009 Michael advises companies and institutions on compliance and integrity issues and provides interim project work. Michael publishes regularly in the field of compliance and integrity. Under his editorial chairmanship, '10 years of Compliance, the practice speaks', (NIBE-SVV, 2010) and 'Business without corruption' (Kluwer, 2013) appeared. Michael publishes from time to time on the Risk & Compliance Platform Europe and has been the founder of DeCompliance Monitor for several years.