Annika van Baar is Assistant professor at the Criminology department of the School of Law of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She has a BSc in Psychology and a BSc in Criminology (VU), an MSc in the criminology of international crimes (VU) and an MA in holocaust and genocide studies (UvA). She obtained a PhD in criminology in 2019 with a thesis titled Corporate involvement in international crimes: In Nazi Germany, Apartheid South Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which was awarded the Willem Nagel Prize for best criminology PhD thesis in 2022.
Annika’s research focuses on corporate involvement in atrocity crimes, trends and patterns in regulating such involvement and reputational damage for human rights violations. Her other research interests include the ways businesses and other economic actors react to new legislation such as the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).
Annika co-supervises the PhD project of Rozanne Henzen on waste colonialism and just circular transitions and the PhD project of Ayreen Alibux on criminogenic conditions and ESG-related crimes.
She teaches a course on corporate involvement in international crimes (Master) and statistics (B1) and also supervises bachelor- and master theses. She is part of the programme committee of the master International crimes, conflict and criminology and of the master Criminology.
Since 2024, she is a member of the editorial board of the journal Cultuur en Criminaliteit.