Dutch gambling regulator names new Advisory Board members
The Advisory Board is back to its full strength with five members.
The Netherlands.- The Dutch gambling regulator Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) has named Marjolein Hoogland and professor Dr. Ingmar Franken as new members of its Advisory Board. They will each serve for a period of three years.
Hoogland is national chief advocate general of the Ressortsparket, the Dutch court of appeal. Previously, she was deputy chief public prosecutor at the District Public Prosecutor’s Office in The Hague and national portfolio holder for victims’ rights.
Franken is a full-time professor of Clinical Psychology at Erasmus University Rotterdam and head of the Centre for Addiction and Substance Research (CESAROpent external) in Rotterdam.
The KSA has had an Advisory Council since 2014. This council provides the regulator with both solicited and unsolicited advice. Various disciplines are represented.
With the appointment of Hoogland and Franken, the Advisory Council is back to full numbers. It’s chaired by Anita Vegter. The other members are Haiko van der Voort and Peter Kerkhof.
Earlier in the month, the KSA named Jaap Wieland as a new independent chair of its Objections Advisory Committee for a period of three years. He becomes the third person to share the role, joining the existing chairs Adriane Koppe and Monique van Oers.
Wieland is a lawyer specialising in general and economic administrative law, which the KSA says makes him a valuable addition to the other two chairs. He was previously a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam’s Faculty of Law and a lawyer at the Administrative Jurisdiction Division of the Council of State.
The committee is designed to serve as an impartial body to review any objections that gambling licencees lodge against the KSA’s enforcement action. It evaluates appeals and makes recommendations to the decision-making body.
Koppe and van Oers were both appointed in 2023. Koppe was a lecturer on constitutional and administrative law at the Hague University of Applied Sciences, while van Oers was director of legal Affairs at the Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets.
