From 23 to 25 September 2015, the 20th Trade Mission about sustainable trading between the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Caribbean region and Latin America took place in Amsterdam. Frank Kunneman, senior partner at VANEPS and lecturer civil law and corporate governance at the University of Curacao, gave a keynote speech titled “Out of control? Corporate Governance in the Dutch Caribbean” during this conference.

Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands addressed the audience during the gala dinner, in her role as founder of the Mission Chapter Foundation. The conference program further included presentations of Pim van Ballekom (Vice President of the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg) and Patricia McKenzie (Vice President of the Caribbean Development Bank in Barbados). Some of the presentations, including the lecture by Frank Kunneman, can be downloaded from the website of InterExpo.