Curriculum vitae

 

Summary

Louis Meuleman has around 30 years of 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 en spatial (land use) planning. He is

· Seconded national expert at the European Commission,

· Senior lecturer at the Strategy Centre of Nyenrode Business University, Breukelen,

· Research fellow at the VU University, Amsterdam, and

· Project director of the TransGov project of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany.

He was (2002-2009) secretary-general of the Dutch Advisory Council for Research on Spatial planning, Nature and Environment in The Hague and Chair of the Netherlands Association for Public Management. He is experienced in giving in workshops on (meta)governance, process management and stakeholder participation, for public managers and policy and communication officers in the Netherlands and EU accession countries (through the Dutch Academy of Publiv Communication and the Dutch School for Police Leadership). He was also lecturer at the European Online Academy. He is the author of Public Management and the metagovernance of hierarchies, networks and markets (Springer, 2008), The Pegasus Principle: Reinventing a credible public sector (Lemma, 2003), co-editor of Environmental Governance in Europe (Lemma, 2003), and wrote a large number of articles in Dutch, mainly on environmental policy and interactive policy-making.