Dr. Joras Ferwerda

Adam Smith Hall (AA)
Kriekenpitplein 21-22
Kamer 1.14
3584 EC Utrecht

Dr. Joras Ferwerda

Associate Professor
Applied Economics
+31 30 253 9553
j.ferwerda@uu.nl

Highlighted Ancillary activities:

 

2022

Advising the Dutch Minister of Justice and Security Dilan Yesilgoz about anti-money laundering policies

 

2018-2021

Researcher for the World Bank, Research on Money Laundering National Risk Assessments

 

2017

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice

 

2015-2017

Senior Researcher, VU University Amsterdam, section Criminology

 

2013-present

Board-member of PhD International Programme Criminology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy

 

 

Other Ancillary activities:

 

2023-present

Coordinator AI Lab Sustainable Finance, Utrecht University

 

2023

PhD Defence Committee Deborah Manzi, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy, February 23, 2023

 

2023

Inform Dutch Members of Parliament about proposed legislation to improve the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing in the Netherlands with a scientific test (together with prof. Jacco Wielhouwer, VU University Amsterdam). See the debate here: https://debatgemist.tweedekamer.nl/debatten/wetenschapstoets-plan-van-aanpak-witwassen (in Dutch)

 

 

2022

Member of job talk committee for assistant professor financial mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Utrecht University

 

2022

Member of job talk committee for PhD position with 40% teaching, Utrecht University School of Economics

 

2022

Member of Advisory Committee ‘Criminal Underground Banking’, WODC, Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice

 

2022-present

Member Ethical Committee, Transaction Monitoring Netherlands (TMNL), partnership of 5 Dutch Banks (ABN AMRO, ING, Rabobank, Triodos Bank and Volksbank) to fight financial crime

 

2021-present

Coordinator Dedicated minor Law for students Economics, Utrecht University School of Economics

 

2020-present

PhD supervisor of Mirko Nazzari, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy

 

2020-2022

PhD supervisor of Lucia Rossel, Utrecht University School of Economics

 

2020-2021 

Chairman of the Working Group on Evaluations, temporary departmental working group focused on improving the evaluations, Utrecht University School of Economics

 

2021

Adviser, International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) project on Addis Tax Initiative Tax-related Illicit Financial Flows

 

2020-2021

PhD supervisor of Francesca Maldi, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy

 

2020-2021

PhD supervisor of Peter Gerbrands, Utrecht University School of Economics

 

2020

Acting member Board Undergraduate Studies, representation of Degree Programme Committee of the Bachelor Economics and Business Economics, Utrecht University

 

2020 

Member Expertteam Powerful, Learning Networks, Collaborative learning in inter-organizational networks in the fight against crime and terrorism, IOS-hub Research Security in Open Societies, Utrecht University

 

2019-2022

Member of Degree Programme Committee of the Bachelor Economics and Business Economics, Utrecht University

 

2019-present

Member of Organisation Committee of the Undergraduate Research Symposium, Utrecht University

 

2019-present

Lecture, giving speeches on Money Laundering irregularly

 

2019-2021

PhD supervisor of Michele Riccardi, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy

 

2019-2020
iCOV project Spatial and Network Analysis of Tax Evasion, with Technical University Vienna

 

2019-2020
Advising Dutch Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Justice and Security, Money Laundering Risks in the Gambling Sector with Offshore Knowledge Centre

 

2018-present

Coordinator Msc-theses for the Master Economic Policy, Utrecht University School of Economics

 

2017-2018

Member of Advisory Committee ‘Monitor Anti-Money Laundering Policy 2013-2016’, WODC, Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice

 

2017-2018

Member of Advisory Committee ‘National Risk Assessments Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing’, WODC, Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice

 

2017

PhD Defence Committee Maryam Imanpour, Utrecht University School of Economics, September 11, 2017

 

2016

Analist for Dutch Ministery of Foreign Affairs, Tax Avoidance by Mining Companies in Developing Countries; an Analysis of Potential Dutch Policy Initiatives

 

2016

Analist for WODC (Dutch Scientific Research and Documentation Centre),  Analysis of Methodological and Data Requirements for a National Risk Assessment Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing in the Netherlands

 

2014-2015

Member of Advisory Committee ‘Monitor Anti-Money Laundering Policy 2010-2013’, WODC, Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice

 

2013-2017

Member of the Board Undergraduate School, Utrecht University School of Economics, The Netherlands

 

2012-2014

Member FinPro-Project Financial Criminal Cloud, sub-group Money Laundering, Meeting More Minds for the Dutch Public Prosecutors’ Office

 

2012-2014

Member FinPro-Project Financial Criminal Cloud, sub-group Big Data, Meeting More Minds for the Dutch Public Prosecutors’ Office

 

2012

Founded sole proprietorship

 

2010-present

Reviewer for different academic journals

 

2007

Substitute Member of Advisory Committee ‘Underground Banking in the Netherlands’, Dutch Ministry of Finance