I work as a policy advisor at the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM), where I focus on consumer protection and international affairs. Previously, I worked as a corporate affairs and investor relations consultant for six years. I have graduate degrees in History from the University of Amsterdam and Public Policy from Maastricht University. For my undergraduate, I received a liberal arts degree from Washington College on the beautiful eastern shore of Maryland and was a Hansard Society Scholar at the London School of Economics for a semester. 

Shortly after graduating with a BA in 2009, I started an internship at The Moth in New York, a live storytelling organisation. Next, I briefly worked as a researcher at Glass Lewis, a proxy consultant for institutional shareholders before attending graduate school Amsterdam and Maastricht and working for Google in Dublin for a year. After grad school, I got my start in the agency world by joining Weber Shandwick’s corporate and public affairs practice in The Hague in 2014. With my interest in economics, I was quickly drawn toward financial communications and soon moved to CFF Communications, then known as Citigate First Financial, a specialised investor relations and corporate affairs agency, where I worked for four and a half years. My clients were global public companies, asset managers, private equity investors and The Ocean Cleanup.

I am a strong believer in the necessity of political compromise. It is the only way that democracies can work in the long run and it worries me that such compromise is increasingly unviable. 

This website is my personal blog and all opinions expressed here are entirely my own, unless otherwise indicated.