Ronald Kroeze is an assistant professor of History at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research areas are the history of governance, transparency, management, democracy and (anti)corruption. Kroeze was a visiting scholar at Humboldt University, Warwick University and University of Avignon. He is a member of the board of the Amsterdam Centre for Political Thought and the European Research Network ‘Politics and Corruption’. A recent publication is Ronald Kroeze, Guy Geltner and André Vitoria (eds.), A History of Anticorruption. From Antiquity until the Modern Era. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.