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Myriam Vander Stichele Associate

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Myriam Vander Stichele has since 2004 been researching the financial industry in relation to its diverse impacts on people, the environment, business impunity and democracy. She advised and was active with NGOS advocating for transforming finance, especially the financial investment industry, with a focus on sustainability and a just transition, financial stability, and rule-making at national, EU and international level. Before, she researched and was part of NGO campaigns to improve income to farmers from the Global South through preventing abusive supermarket practices. She continues to work on the danger of global food price setting on financial platforms. Since 1990, she monitors trade and investment agreements as tools for neo-liberal economics. Myriam in-depth research, speaking engagements and networking is supporting many NGOs in their EU and international campaigns.

Myriam Vander Stichele
Telephone
+31 20 662 66 08

During a long period as Senior Researcher at SOMO (Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations), Myriam's research has been particularly focused on the harmful corporate strategies in the financial and food sectors, and the related regulated frameworks at the expense of people and planet. 

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Publications

Latest work

  • La empresa financiarizada Cómo las finanzas alimentan y transforman la corporación de hoy en día

    • Estado del poder
    • Finanzas
    • Impunidad corporativa

    El presente ensayo se centrará en un sector que ha hecho más que ningún otro para impulsar el comportamiento abusivo de las empresas y su impunidad: el sector financiero. Sus diversos actores no sólo han prestado servicios, sino que también han facilitado que las empresas ignoren la responsabilidad social y ambiental y han reestructurado la empresa, lo que ha dado lugar a la financiarización de toda la economía.

    Longread by
    Myriam vander Stichele

  • The financialised firm How finance fuels and transforms today’s corporation

    • State of Power
    • Finance
    • Stop Corporate Impunity

    The financial sector does not just provide a lifeline to corporations, it is actively helping them expand and changing the very nature of the modern corporation.

    Longread by
    Myriam Vander Stichele

  • The impact of free trade on the financial crisis … and vice versa

    Trade

    Behind the currency wars and the worsening global economic crisis lies a largely unquestioned free trade model that both contributed to the crisis and, without radical reform, is a major obstacle to overcoming it.

    Paper by
    Myriam Vander Stichele
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