Publications

June 2024: Chapter on setting up ethics and compliance programs in the book “It’s time for business ethics” by Jelle van Baardewijk

May 2023: Interview with Geert Vermeulen in magazine of Dutch Insurers Association on the Whistleblower Protection Act
May 2023: “Wet bescherming klokkenluiders vergroot de veiligheid binnen organisaties” – Werk en Veiligheid
March 2023: Articles on multiple websites about the Dutch Whistleblower Protection Act, for example on Managementsite, Boommanagement and Globalriskcommunity
February 2023: “Five reasons for establishing a good speak up culture”, EIMF

December 2021: “Veilige meldcultuur in de praktijk”, article in “De Compliance Officer” together with Susanne Hafkamp on how to create a speak-up culture

Article on FinCEN files for Risk & Compliance Platform Europe in Dutch/English/French
Vermeulen wrote the first draft for the brochure of the Dutch Whistleblowing Authority regarding whistleblowing procedures and internal investigations, available in Dutch & English
Blog for the VCO on the integrity risks during the COVID-19 crisis. Republished by the Risk & Compliance Platform in Dutch and English.

December 12 2019: Article at opinion pages of Het Financieele Dagblad “Lift the (Dutch) anti-corruption legislation to the international level” together with co-authors Mark Pyman and Brook Horowitz (paywall, Dutch language). Original English language title: “Climbing out of the ethical black hole”.
November 23, 2019: Quoted by Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad on the gatekeeper role of banks and accountants (paywall, Dutch language)
November 2019: Article in “Tijdschrift voor Compliance” on anti-corruption programs for companies outside of the financial services industry (paywall, Dutch language)
July 2019: Article in “De Compliance Officer” on WOW moments in compliance
April 2019: Whistleblowing procedures: Separate advice from investigations. Dutch compliance magazine “Tijdschrift voor Compliance” (Dutch language)

January 2018: Different worlds: Corporate Governance and the Ethics and Compliance Officer, Ethikos magazine (available upon request)

August 2017: Corporate Governance and the Ethics & Compliance Officer: Unknown and therefore unloved? Article in Dutch compliance magazine “Tijdschrift voor Compliance” (paywall; Dutch language)

December 2016: Interview with Dutch business newspaper FD on how compliance officers struggle with their new role as guardians of integrity (paywall; Dutch language)
November 2016: Article on the FCPA Blog about the successful cooperation between the US and Dutch anti-corruption prosecutors
July 2016: Co-author of a legal brief together with Navex on Dutch House for Whistleblowers legislation
March 2016: The current state and the future of the compliance profession, article in Tijdschrift voor Compliance (paywall; Dutch language)
March 2016: LinkedIn post on House for whistleblowers legislation adopted in The Netherlands

December 2015: Trust Business and Corporate Misconduct: Stemming the Tide by Stick or by Carrot? Two-part article in Journal of Business Compliance
December 2015: Interview with Dutch business newspaper FD (Dutch language)

March 2014: Interview published by Brightstone regarding New draft whistleblower legislation in The Netherlands (Dutch language)
January 2014: Article on the FCPA Blog on the KPMG Netherlands corruption settlement

October 2013: Co-author of a Dutch book on anti-corruption, published by Kluwer; I wrote the chapter regarding Third Party Due Diligence (Dutch language)