Maartje van Putten was the second European member of the Inspection Panel, after Ernst-Günther Bröder. She is a specialist and was an advisor to many financial institutions creating their own independent accountability mechanisms such as the EIB and the ADB, and a member of several mechanisms. Prior to her work on IAMs, she was a member of the European Parliament for ten years. At present she is the chair of the OECD National Contact Point in the Netherlands, which receives complaints alleging that actions by large multinational corporations do not adhere to the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.