Dutch corporate governance expert loses posts over links to fraudster

University and government watchdog drop academic and pundit Jaap Koelewijn

A Dutch academic and media pundit specialising in corporate governance and integrity has lost his university and government watchdog roles after it emerged that he had knowingly gone into business with a convicted fraudster.

Jaap Koelewijn, who wrote a column in a Dutch newspaper and regularly appeared on TV and radio, had hired a man named only as Michel G, who served a 10-month prison sentence for financial fraud, to work at his two investment funds under a false name.