Born and educated in Amsterdam,with a degree in Law (specialization Crimibnalo Law). After roles at the City of Amsterdam, the Central Council of Appeal (de Centrale Raad van Beroep) and the University of Amsterdam, since 1993 active as independant legal council. Specialization is in labor law, public employee affairs, governmental law and complaint-law.

Since several years active in matters of inapprpriate behaviour and of integrity, working for the agency Bezemer & Kuiper in Rotterdam and later the practice Van Oss & Partners in Den Bosch. In those roles I have built a long track record of conducting courses and workshops on Ombudsperson, complaint-offices and the management thereof, with an emphasis on the legal dimension. This has also brought me to be in several complaint-boards Als experience as counselor in legal procedures and mediator. Next to that, since 2012 chairman of the Netherlands Assocxiation of Legal Councelors (Nederlandse Vereniging van Rechtskundige Adviseurs) (NVRA) and, since March 2013, chairman of the National Association of Ombudspersons (Landelijke Vereniging van Vertrouwenspersonen; LVV).

Geary Sikich is a Principal with Logical Management Systems, Corp., a management consulting and executive education firm with a focus on enterprise risk management, contingency planning, executive education and issues analysis. Geary developed LMSCARVERtm the “Active Analysis” framework, which directly links key value drivers to operating processes and activities. LMSCARVERtm provides a framework that enables a progressive approach to business planning, scenario planning, performance assessment and goal setting. Prior to founding Logical Management Systems, Corp. in 1985 Geary held a number of senior operational management positions in a variety of industry sectors. Geary served in the U.S. Army; responsible for the initial concept design and testing of the U.S. Army's National Training Center and other related activities. Geary holds a M.Ed. in Counseling and Guidance from the University of Texas at El Paso and a B.S. in Criminology from Indiana State University. Geary has developed and taught courses for Norwich University, University of Nevada Reno, George Washington University and University of California Berkley. He is active in Executive Education, where he has developed and delivered courses in enterprise risk management, contingency planning, performance management and analytics. Geary is a frequent speaker on business continuity issues business performance management. He is the author of over 415 published articles and four books:

• "It Can't Happen Here: All Hazards Crisis Management Planning," PennWell, 1993
• "The Emergency Management Planning Handbook," McGraw-Hill 1995
• "The Emergency Management Planning Handbook," McGraw-Hill Spanish Edition, 1998
• "Integrated Business Continuity: Maintaining Resilience in Uncertain Times," PennWell, 2003
• “Protecting Your Business in a Pandemic: Plans, Tools, and Advice for Maintaining Business Continuity,” Greenwood Publishing (Praeger Publishing subsidiary) 2008

Geary has developed and validated over 4,000 contingency, continuity and crisis management plans and conducted over 450 seminars and workshops worldwide for over 100 clients in energy, chemical, transportation, government, healthcare, technology, manufacturing, heavy industry, utilities, legal & insurance, banking & finance, security services, institutions and management advisory specialty firms. Geary consults on a regular basis with companies worldwide on business continuity, risk, competitive intelligence, strategy and crisis management issues.

Professional and Industry Experience Dr. Fons Trompenaars is recognised around world for his work as consultant, trainer, motivational speaker and author of various books on all subjects of culture and business.
He has spent over 30 years helping Fortune 500 leaders manage and solve their business and cultural dilemmas to increase global effectiveness and performance, particularly in the areas of globalisation, mergers and acquisition, HR and leadership development.
Listed regularly as one of the world’s most influential, living, management thinkers, he has been awarded the International Professional Practice Area Research Award by the American Society for Training and Development. Fons was voted one of the top 20 HR Most Influential International Thinkers 2011 by HR Magazine. He is also ranked in the Thinkers50 2011, 2013 and 2015 as being one of the most influential management thinkers alive. Fons joined Shell in 1981 and moved into the Personnel Division for Shell in Rotterdam. From 1985, he worked in job classification and management development at the Shell Research Laboratories in Amsterdam. In 1989 he founded the Centre for International Business Studies, a consulting and training organization for international management. Since 1998 we operate as Trompenaars Hampden-Turner. Fons Trompenaars has worked as a consultant for Shell, BP, ICI, Philips, Heineken, TRW, Mars, Motorola, General Motors, Nike, Cable and Wireless, CSM and Merrill Lynch. Fons wrote Riding the Waves of Culture, Understanding Cultural Diversity in Business. This book sold over 120,000 copies and was translated into 16 languages amongst them, French, German, Dutch, Korean, Danish, Turkish, Chinese, Hungarian and Portuguese. He is co-author amongst others of Nine Visions of Capitalism: Unlocking the Meanings of Wealth Creation and Rewarding Performance Globally

Abiola Makinwa is a Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law with a special focus on Anti-Corruption Law and Policy at The Hague University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands. Abiola was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1986 and previously lectured as a Senior Lecturer at the Lagos State University, Lagos, Nigeria. She is a professional member of the International Compliance Association and Chair of the Structured Criminal Settlements subcommittee of the International Bar Association Anti-Corruption Committee.
Abiola holds a Ph.D. from Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her thesis, published as a book, Private Remedies for Corruption: Towards an International Framework (Eleven 2013), focuses on the role of private actors and the importance of public/private dialogue in the fight against corruption. Her essay ‘Future Thinking through the Prism of International Corruption’ won the 2010 Hague Institute for the Internationalization of Law, Future Thinking Essay Award. She was appointed as the Dutch National Reporter together with Professor X. Kramer to report on ‘Civil Law Consequences of Corruption in International Commercial Contracts’ for the 19th Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law (Vienna, 2014). In 2013, Abiola was awarded an EU OLAF Hercule II Grant to research European Perspectives on Negotiated Settlements for Corruption Offences. This resulted in a book, A. Makinwa (Ed) Negotiated Settlements for Corruption Offences: A European Perspective (Eleven, 2015). Abiola is a frequent speaker on anti-corruption law and policy and has introduced Anti-Corruption Compliance as an undergraduate course at The Hague University of Applied Sciences.

The international collaboration between national institutes and international universities has a long tradition. Some call it distributed delivery of Higher Education, others simply franchising. Many such institutes even offer degree programmes from various universities and different countries. But this is not about terms, it is about mutually beneficial collaboration and benefits for students. Many institutes around the world are offering excellent education and professional qualifications. But they do not have own Degree Awarding Powers. This is not necessarily about their quality of education, it is a formal question and one of significance for many students wanting to achieve more in their professional careers and lives. Through careful accreditation, the E.H.E. European University EurAka Switzerland offers Institutes in other countries opportunities to lead their own students to internationally recognised academic degree awards. Degrees of prestigious value: Higher Education Swiss made - on Bachelor, Master’s, and in specific cases even doctoral studies. The University’s widely renowned superior quality of academic studies in many fields of knowledge offers many advantages. Only a few, but decisive factors are:

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Professional and Industry Experience Dr. Fons Trompenaars is recognised around world for his work as consultant, trainer, motivational speaker and author of various books on all subjects of culture and business.
He has spent over 30 years helping Fortune 500 leaders manage and solve their business and cultural dilemmas to increase global effectiveness and performance, particularly in the areas of globalisation, mergers and acquisition, HR and leadership development.
Listed regularly as one of the world’s most influential, living, management thinkers, he has been awarded the International Professional Practice Area Research Award by the American Society for Training and Development. Fons was voted one of the top 20 HR Most Influential International Thinkers 2011 by HR Magazine. He is also ranked in the Thinkers50 2011, 2013 and 2015 as being one of the most influential management thinkers alive.
Fons joined Shell in 1981 and moved into the Personnel Division for Shell in Rotterdam. From 1985, he worked in job classification and management development at the Shell Research Laboratories in Amsterdam. In 1989 he founded the Centre for International Business Studies, a consulting and training organization for international management. Since 1998 we operate as Trompenaars Hampden-Turner. Fons Trompenaars has worked as a consultant for Shell, BP, ICI, Philips, Heineken, TRW, Mars, Motorola, General Motors, Nike, Cable and Wireless, CSM and Merrill Lynch.
Fons wrote Riding the Waves of Culture, Understanding Cultural Diversity in Business. This book sold over 120,000 copies and was translated into 16 languages amongst them, French, German, Dutch, Korean, Danish, Turkish, Chinese, Hungarian and Portuguese. He is co-author amongst others of Nine Visions of Capitalism: Unlocking the Meanings of Wealth Creation and Rewarding Performance Globally.