Cynthia Arends is a Compliance Officer specializing in Financial Economic Crime at Nationale-Nederlanden and serves as a Board Member of Young Financial Crime at IFFC - Institute for Financial Crime. Arends has further experience as a Compliance Officer at Nederlands Compliance Instituut and volunteered with Tom in de buurt. Prior professional experience includes a role as a Customer Solutions Expert at MediaMarkt. Arends holds a Master's degree in Criminology and Security Policy from Leiden University and a Master's degree in Investigative Criminology from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, obtained between 2016 and 2019.