Dr. Hortense Jongen

Dr. Hortense Jongen was a member of the PROM until 2018. She worked on the authority of peer-review mechanisms of the OECD, the Council of Europe and the UN in the field of anti-corruption. She has moved on to work as a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Global Studies in Gothenburg, Sweden and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). (Personal page). 

Hortense successfully defended her PhD manuscript ‘Combating corruption the soft way: the authority of peer reviews in the global fight against graft’ on 15 September 2017.  In 2018, Maastricht University awarded Hortense with the UM Dissertation prize.