Professor C. (Christoph) Reichard is emeritus professor of Public Management at the University of Potsdam. He is a member of the Potsdam Centre of Policy and Management and of the Institute of Local Government Studies. He was and is guest professor at several universities, including universities in Milan (Bocconi), Rotterdam, Siena and Vienna. He is chair of the European Association of Public Administration Accreditation (EAPAA). His main fields of research include (new) public management, governance issues, public financial management and public personnel. His recent research projects deal with the evaluation of national and international trends of new public management, corporate governance problems of public enterprises, the use of financial data for managerial decisions, and education and training in the German public sector. He published about 240 books and articles.
Professor J.J. (Jaap) Boonstra is professor Organizational Change and Learning at the University of Amsterdam and at Esade Business School in Barcelona (ES). He is the Dean and chairman of the scientific board of Sioo, the National Inter-university Center for Organizational Change and Learning in the Netherlands. He is a member of the board of governors for a wholesale organization and a youth care institute, and a member of the advisory board of the Dutch Immigration Services and the Dutch Academy of Governmental Communication. As a consultant, he is involved in change processes in organizational networks in the Netherlands, Spain and South Africa. His research focuses on transformational leadership, barriers to organizational change and innovation, power dynamics in organizational change, and sustainable development of organizations. He published more than two hundred articles on technological and organizational innovation, management of organizational change, organizational learning, politics in organizations, strategic decision making and transformational change in the service sector and public administration.
Professor J.A. (Hans) de Bruijn is professor of Public Administration at Delft University of Technology. He is one of the leaders of the Policy, Organization, Law & Gaming Group, which comprises some 30 researchers, many of whom are social scientists or legal experts. The group is part of the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management. The Faculty encompasses experts in the fields of Policy Analysis, Systems Engineering, Economics and Business Administration and a large number of experts in technical areas of application such as energy and industry, and transport and logistics. Hans de Bruijn is member of the Management Team and research director of the faculty. He is attached as an associate to Berenschot Process Management, The Hague. As a consultant, he has been commissioned by a large number of parties. These recently included the Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Province of South Holland, the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, the Confederation of Netherlands Industry and Employers, the Institute for Inland Water Management and Waste Water Treatment, Berenschot, the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management.
Professor H. (Harald) Sætren is head of department of the Department of Administration and Organization Theory of the University of Bergen. In 1983, he obtained his PhD degree in at the University of Bergen. In 1987, he became full professor in the Department of Administration and Organization Theory. He was head of department in 1988-1989 and from 1999 until 2001 as well. He currently co-chairs the EGPA permanent study group on Public Policy. He was a member of international expert teams appointed by the respective ministries of education to evaluate Public Administration programmes in Estonia in 2009, 2006, 2001 and in Lithuania in 2006 and 2004. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of
Comparative Policy Analysis and a member of the Advisory Committee to the Scandinavian Political Studies journal. His research focuses on public policy and policy changes. He published numerous books and articles, including a recent book on change and continuity in public organizations.
Professor J. (Juraj) Nemec is professor of Public Finance and Public Management at the Faculty of Finance of the University of Banska Bystrica. He holds an MBA in Business Administration and a Ph.D. in Public Sector Economics and he has more than 28 years of experience in teaching in public sector management and procurement. He published over 300 books and scientific articles in his field and fulfilled several academic posts, including the position of Dean of the Faculty of Finance. In 2010, he received an important reward for his performance, the NISPAcee Brunowska Award. He is Vice-President of the International Research Society for Public Management, member of the Management Board of the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration (IASIA), project director of the IASIA permanent working group Public Sector Financial, Performance and Information Management. He is also a member of the Accreditation Committee of the European Association of Public Administration Accreditation. He was involved in the evaluation process of the first year of the European Public Service Award. He has coordinated many research and advisory projects. Recently, he was appointed as member of the review committee of the Slovak research grant agency APVV.
Professor J. (John) Loughlin was professor of European Politics at Cardiff University since 1995. In October 2010, he took up the position of Fellow of St Edmund’s College Cambridge and of Affiliated Lecturer in Politics of Cambridge University (UK). Previously he was associate professor in Public Administration at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (1991- 1994) and Senior Lecturer in Public Administration at the University of Ulster (UK, 1985- 1991). He holds a Doctorate in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence (IT). He holds or has held visiting professorshops and Fellowships in Oxford, Cambridge, Princeton, Florence, Paris, Bordeaux, Aix-en-Provence and Brussels, among many others. His main fields of research have been in Comparative European Politics and Administration. He has published numerous books and articles. In 2009, the University of Umea (SE) awarded him an honorary doctorate in recognition of his contribution to research in European politics and territorial governance. In 2010, the French government named him an Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques in recognition of his contribution of the study of European politics and to the spread of French language and culture in the United Kingdom. He is a member of the Royal Society of Arts, the Royal Historical Society and the Academy of Social Sciences of the United Kingdom.
Professor T. (Tony) Bovaird is professor of Public Management and Policy at the INLOGOV and Third Sector Research Centre of the University of Birmingham. He worked in the UK Civil Service and at several universities. In 2006, he accepted a position at INLOGOV. He was a member of the OECD e-Governance Task Force. He chaired the Evaluation Partnership, set up by the UK government to coordinate the evaluation of the Local Government Modernisation Agenda, from 2002–2007 and is a member of the CLG Expert Panel on Local Governance. He undertook evaluation case studies of the Civil Service Reform Programme, commissioned by the Cabinet Office, and recently led the UK contribution to an EU project on user and community co-production of public services in five European countries. He helps to organize the European Public Sector Award and is on the Strategy Board of the Local Authorities Research Council Initiative. He published numerous books and articles.
Professor M. (Michael) Hill was professor of Social Policy at the University of Newcastle. He was head of department from 1986 until 1994. He took early retirement in 1997 and was appointed emeritus professor of Social Policy. Currently he is visiting professor in the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the London School of Economics, the Department of Politics, Queen Mary College, University of London and the School of Applied Social Science, University of Brighton. From 1998 until 2003, he was visiting professor at the Department of Politics, Goldsmiths College, University of London and joint editor of the Journal of Social Policy. His previous appointments include positions as Senior Lecturer at the School for Advanced Urban Studies in the University of Bristol, Research Officer and Deputy Director of a DHSS funded social work research project at the University of Oxford, Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Reading, and Executive Officer in the National Assistance Board.
Professor M. (Mirko) Vintar is full professor of Informatics in Public Administration at the Faculty of Administration of the University of Ljubljana. He was dean of the Faculty of Administration (1993-1995) and he has been vice-dean for scientific research since 1999. He is also head of the Institute for Informatization of Administration. He gained his doctorate in administration and information science studies at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Ljubljana. For over 20 years, his work has dealt with the informatisation of public administration, with a major focus on the development of e-government in recent years. Professor Vintar chairs and has chaired numerous national and foreign research and applied development projects. He is actively involved in various international scientific and professional bodies in the field of administration research. He is a member of the social sciences council at the Slovenian Research Agency, editor and co-author of several scientific monographs. He chaired the programme and organizing committees of international conferences held in Slovenia (EGPA 2004, NISPAcee 2006, SSPA 2007).
Mr. drs. A.J. (Arthur) Modderkolk studied economics and law at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. In 1975, he joined the directorate-general for the national budget of the Ministry of Finance. He held various positions at the ministry, including the position of director responsible for the finances of provinces and municipalities. In 1985, he was appointed as general director and secretary general of the province of Noord-Brabant. In 1997, he moved to the health sector, where he became manager and secretary general of the foundation De Open Ankh. In this postion, he was manager of the largest conglomerate of AWBZ-funded health services and a member of more than ten supervisory boards of health institutions. Arthur Modderkolk has had and continues to have many additional positions in various public sectors, including education, church, youth care, and housing corporations.
Dr. A.A.M. (Louis) Meuleman has almost 30 years of experience in the public sector experience, serving as a policy-maker, project manager, head of unit, process manager and project director, on national, regional and international issues, mainly in the fields of environment, sustainable development and spatial (land use) planning. Until recently, he was secretary general of the Dutch Advisory Council for Research on Spatial Planning, Nature and Environment (RMNO) in The Hague. Since January 2010, he works at the Dutch environment ministry as senior advisor international strategy and governance. He is director of the project “Science for sustainable societal transformations: Towards effective governance” (TransGov) of the International Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS, Potsdam, Germany), chair of the Netherlands Association for Public Management (VOM), senior lecturer at Nyenrode Business University (Breukelen, the Netherlands), and research fellow at VU University Amsterdam. He gives workshops on (meta)governance,
process management and stakeholder participation. His PhD thesis “Public Management and the Metagovernance of Hierarchies, Networks and Markets” was published in 2008.
Dr. C.J.M. (Kees) Breed graduated in political sciences at the University of Amsterdam (1973). In 2007, he successfully completed his PhD thesis ‘Governance culture and strategy – a research study into the cognitive map of top civil servants’. Kees Breed has been working for several public and semi-public organizations, mainly in the fields of scientific research (Netherlands foundation for international scientific cooperation, Nuffic) and public administration (Ministry of Home Affairs, Permanent Representation of the Netherlands at the European Union). From 1998 until 2006 he acted as a private strategy consultant for organizations at different levels of government (national, provincial and local government). Since 2006, Kees Breed holds the position of Secretary of two national advisory councils: the Council for public administration (Rob) and the Council for financial relations (between government layers, Rfv).
Drs. H. (Henk) Nijhof has been chairman of the Dutch political party GroenLinks since 2006. From 1994 until 2006, he was alderman in the city of Hengelo, representing GroenLinks. He also served as regional manager of the education trade union ABOP and as director of a so-called Jenaplan school in Hengelo. Henk Nijhof holds and has held various additional positions. Currently, he is chairman of the council of clients of nursing homes in Twente, member of the board of the Olympic Network Twente and a member of the advisory council for the public domain. Until 2009, he chaired the supervisory board of a cluster of four schools for severely maladjusted children in Twente. Until 2006, he was chair of the School Advisory Service (Schoolbegeleidingsdienst) Twente.
T. (Tom) Degen is a master’s student of Public Administration at Leiden University. He enrolled in the bachelor’s programme in 2006. During his first two years of study, he was actively involved in various committees of his student fraternity and his study association. In 2008-2009, he was chairman of the Bestuurskundige Interfacultaire vereniging Leiden, the study association of Public Administration. In 2010, he was one of the authors of a book which marked the 25th anniversary of the department of Public Administration and the study association. He currently is a research assistant at the Hague Campus of Leiden University and he follows the specialization in Crisis and Security Management of the master’s programme in Public Administration.
J. (Janneke) van der Heijden is a student of the bachelor’s programme in Public Administration at Tilburg University. As of September 2010, she is the student member of the board of the Tilburg Law School. In 2009-2010, she was the student member of the faculty’s Education Board, which supports and advices the Vice-Dean for Education of the faculty. From 2007 until 2009, she was a member of the Faculty Council of the Tilburg Law School.