Joras Ferwerda
Joras Ferwerda graduated as a Doctor of Economics, a Master's degree in Economics and Social Sciences, and a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Law from Utrecht University.He is currently Associate Professor at the Utrecht University School of Economics in the Netherlands. He is also on the academic board of the Catholic University of Milan for the international PhD criminology programme. He was Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park at the Criminology and Criminal Justice department and Senior Researcher at the section Criminology of VU University Amsterdam. He is a certified money laundering expert for the Dutch National Police. He wrote 3 books on money laundering and participated in the first study into the scope and effects of money laundering in the Netherlands, commissioned by the Ministry of Finance.