Michiel Luchtman (1975) is professor of Economic and European criminal law at the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law & Criminology. He studied law at Utrecht University and received his doctor’s degree cum laude from that university in 2007. He received the Siracusa Prize in 2009 by the International Association of Penal Law and the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences (ISISC) for the book 'European cooperation between financial supervisory authorities, tax authorities and judicial authorities.' This prize is awarded to a young criminal lawyer, under 35, by an international jury for an original, single-author publication of great scientific value in penal law. The AIDP is the world’s oldest association of specialists in penal law (see www.penal.org).
Luchtman received a prestigious Veni grant of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) in 2008 for his research project on choice of forum in criminal matters. He currently leads two projects on law enforcement by EU authorities. The projects are funded by NWO under the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme (Vidi grant) and the Hercule III programme of the European Commission/OLAF. He co-headed the Renforce project on the (political and judicial) accountability of EU law enforcement, in which academics and practicioners of different nationalities cooperate. He is co-founder of the Jean Monnet Network on enforcement of EU law (EULEN).