Program Overview

Executive Master Compliance & Integrity Management

The Executive Master Compliance & Integrity Management is a program that approaches compliance issues from a multidisciplinary perspective, encompassing not only the legal perspective but also considerations of technology, ethics, and risk management. The program is designed to equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to navigate the intricacies of human dynamics within the workplace, ultimately contributing to effective sustainable performance, leadership, organizational integrity, and employee well-being.

Programme Structure

The program consists of four modules/courses, each spanning approximately 6 full lecture days during two periods of 3 consecutive days. Each module/course concludes with an exam, either written or oral. The total study load (including the 2 essays) is about 1,680 hours (60 ECTS).

Plenary Debate and Written Exams

Students conclude each module/course with an exam. To successfully complete the program, students are required to achieve satisfactory scores. The exams are designed to assess understanding and retention of the material covered in the respective module’s/courses' lectures, including literature that students must study independently. The total study load of the plenary lectures and the final written exams is about 1,260 hours (45 ECTS).

Concluding Essays

Each year students are tasked with composing an essay. Achieving satisfactory scores on these essays is a requisite for successful program completion. When following only one or more modules/courses, an essay is not required. Each essay entails a study load of approximately 100 hours, amounting to a total of 15 ECTS across the entire program.

Courses

• Organisational Culture & Behavioural Risk: This course aims to equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to navigate the intricacies of human dynamics within the workplace, ultimately contributing to effective sustainable performance, leadership, organizational integrity, and employee well-being.
  • Key elements and learning objectives:
    • Recognise compliance and integrity risks, such as corruption, servant or toxic leadership, and understand the essence of these risks.
    • Gain a comprehensive understanding of relevant concepts, strategies, and skills necessary for successfully navigating, addressing and changing human behavior in the workplace.
• Enterprise Risk & Compliance Management: This course teaches students to consider and manage compliance and integrity risks in the context of structuring organisations and risk management with regard to strategic and operational goals.
  • Key elements and learning objectives:
    1. Apply current theory, frameworks and practice of risk management concepts to your own organisation.
    2. Relate risk management practices to different organisational contexts.
    3. Interpret the purpose of risk management and compliance in your own organisation.
    4. Differentiate the roles of key players (top management, board, CRO, compliance, audit) in the risk management and governance process.
    5. Understand the role of risk appetite when deciding on risk management measures.
    6. Reflect on how risk management is integrated in existing processes, culture and behavior.
    7. Assess how risk management and compliance processes can be implemented/improved.
    8. Judge relationships with stakeholders relevant to risk.
• Regulatory Impact & Organisational Response: This course cultivates a more profound understanding of the motivations and backdrops of legislation and regulations. Students become adept at envisioning the supervision of organisations from a strategic and holistic lens, identifying pertinent (inter)national supervisory mechanisms, and understanding the enforcement of rules within an organisational purview.
  • Key elements and learning objectives:
    1. Understanding the rationale behind legislation (macro level).
    2. Understanding supervision/the supervisor & enforcement in theory and use this in practice (macro/micro level).
    3. Understanding the working and evaluation of government policy and legislation (macro level).
    4. Applying the above knowledge in the organisation (micro level).
• Data, Evidence, and Compliance: This course enables students to approach compliance and integrity issues in a multidisciplinary manner. Students acquire the ability to identify compliance and integrity risks using data analysis and modern technological control measures.
  • Key elements and learning objectives:
    1. Understanding the rationale behind legislation (macro level).
    2. Understanding supervision/the supervisor & enforcement in theory and use this in practice (macro/micro level).
    3. Understanding the working and evaluation of government policy and legislation (macro level).
    4. Applying the above knowledge in the organisation (micro level).

Characteristics of the Programme

The Compliance & Integrity Management program is an executive program with a solid scientific foundation. The program is embedded in the School of Business and Economics and led by scholars with the necessary practical experience. This ensures a balanced approach to the field of compliance and integrity.

• Practical and Scientific: A teaching team that pairs practical experience with recent and robust scientific insights.
• Literature: Literature is largely in English, providing students with the latest insights and developments in the field.
• Personal Guidance: Students receive personal guidance in writing their essays.
• Blended Learning: Knowledge clips are shared in advance and viewed online, followed by interactive sessions based on further processing, for example through case histories.

Curatorium

The Compliance & Integrity Management program is part of the Executive Education Foundation of the School of Business and Economics of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The daily management and final responsibility of the program rest with the program board. The curatorium oversees the content and development of the program, composed of leading representatives from professional practice and the university world.

• Current members of the curatorium include:
  • Prof. dr. B. Bosma - Director School of Business and Economics Executive Education, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  • Dr. M. Gelderman - Division Director Supervision, De Nederlandsche Bank
  • Drs. A. Meddeler - Chief Compliance Officer, Rabobank
  • Mr. B.C.P. van Koppen - voormalig SVP Corporate Center & General Council, KLM
  • Mr. M.J.C. Somsen - Partner, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
  • Drs. H. van Beusekom MBA - Member Executive Board, AFM

Lecturers

The program is taught by a team of experienced lecturers, including:

• Prof. dr. mr. Tom Loonen
• Prof. dr. Jacco Wielhouwer
• Mr. Raf Houben
• Mr. Tom van de Laar
• Dr. mr. ir. Richard Hoff
• Dr. Evelyn Braumann
• Dr. Juan P. Mendoza
• Drs. Kim Arts
• Dr. Tjibbe Bosman RA