Karin Lasthuizen

Karin Marjolein Lasthuizen (born 1970) is a Dutch-New Zealand academic. As of 2016, she holds the Brian Picot Chair in Ethical Leadership at the Victoria University of Wellington.
Academic career.
After an undergraduate at Radboud University Nijmegen, Lasthuizen did a 2008 PhD at VU University Amsterdam titled " 'Leading to integrity : empirical research into the effects of leadership on ethics and integrity.' " She then lectured at VU University Amsterdam and was a city counciler for the Labour Party before moving to Wellington, New Zealand in 2016 to take up the Brian Picot Chair in Ethical Leadership at the Victoria University of Wellington.
Lasthuizen's research focus on public-sector ethics and leadership.