Karin Lasthuizen
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Professor Karin Lasthuizen is the Brian Picot Chair in Ethical Leadership - Aritahi (www.wgtn.ac.nz/ethical-leadership) at the Wellington School of Business and Government at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand).
Professor Lasthuizen’s work provides evidence-based insights and international best practices that can improve ethical leadership in business and government across New Zealand and help mitigate the ethical risks that can lead to organisational failures. Her research and consultancy work focuses on ethical leadership and ethics management in public and private sector organisations and she specialises in methodology for research into organisational unethical behaviours, such as corruption, fraud and interpersonal deviance. Professor Lasthuizen recently received a prestigious research grant to lead a team that will investigate political integrity and release an annual Political Integrity Index for New Zealand in the coming years.
Professor Lasthuizen has numerous publications in national and international journals and books, and she is co-author of the newly published book “HUMANGOOD. A field guide to ethical leadership” (2021). She also offers a massive open online course (MOOC) “Ethical Leadership in a Changing World” via the EdX platform to professionals and students worldwide.
Professor Lasthuizen is a founder of the international academic research network on Public and Political Leadership (www. pupolnetwork.com) and she is the NZ National Partner for the global Ethics at Work Employee Survey of the UK Institute of Business Ethics. In recent years she has also chaired the Ethics Committee of Transparency International New Zealand.
Professor Lasthuizen studied Political Science at the Radboud University of Nijmegen (the Netherlands). In 2001 she joined the VU University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, where she obtained her PhD in Social Sciences in 2008 with the dissertation Leading to Integrity on leadership and integrity violations within the police. In 2011 Professor Lasthuizen was awarded the VU/FSW Jenny Gierveld Fellowship for talented female scholars. Before she moved to Wellington in 2016, she also worked part time as a City Councillor for the Dutch Labour party (PvdA) in her home city Arnhem.
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