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In the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, the academic resources of the faculties of the UM and those of several foreign partners are combined in order to guarantee multi-disciplinary top-academic training in the heart of Europe.

Faculty staff from A to Z:
 

Dr. B. Amelung

Research interests: Tourism, Climate change and tourism, Sustainable development
University: Maastricht University
Department: ICIS
Position in the faculty: Research fellow
 

Dr. C. Arnolds

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University: Maastricht University
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Prof. dr. ir. M. Asselt

Research interests: Uncertainty,Risk, knowledge-expertise-and-society, interdisciplinary methodology
University: Maastricht University
Department: Technology and science studies
Position in the faculty: Senior researcher


P. Barret Reid

Research interests: Applied research in the area of policy coherence and policy space at the national and international level for social security with particular emphasis on language, culture and networks.
University: Maastricht University
Department: Maastricht Graduate School of Governance
Position in the faculty: Deputy Director of the Social Security Department. Particular responsibility for Technical Cooperation


Dr. C. Behrendt
 
Research interests: Social security in low and middle income countries, namely in respect to the affordability of basic social protection and its impact on poverty reduction; social security statistics; analyses of social protection based on household surveys; social assistance and other
minimum income schemes; public and private pensions.
University: Maastricht University
Department: Technology and science studies
Position in the faculty: International Labour Office, Social Security Department


L. Belder

 
Research interests: Intellectual Property, Media Law, Art Law, Governance of Cultural Property. Balancing Stakes, Rights and Claims in Cultural Expressions.

Research on exclusive rights to cultural expressions: Ownership; Copyright; Influence of international law on the protection and promotion of cultural heritage; property rights and the public domain; cultural rights and human rights.
University: Maastricht University
Department: Faculty of Law
Position in the faculty: Assistant-Professor
Other emplyment: Advisor to the Dutch UNESCO Committee on Cultural diversity and Information & Communication.
Member of the Dutch UNESCO project group IPDC
Member of the Dutch UNESCO committee on Culture Communication and Information
Member of the Uppsala University Project Culture, Creativity and Copyright


C. Beumer

Research interests: Ethics of biodiversity/ecosystem management; sustainable development and cultural values; globalization and value change; global complexities and sustainability science
University: Maastricht University
Department: ICIS
Position in the faculty: Junior Researcher


Prof. dr. ir. W. Bijker

Research interests: Book project for MIT Press, provisional title: UNDERSTANDING TECHNOLOGY And Changing The World; Recent history of the Health Council of the Netherlands (with Roland Bal and Ruud Hendriks); Foresight study of the role of humanities in the information society (for the AWT) Book published in June 2002: Bijker, Wiebe E., and Ben Peperkamp
University: Maastricht University
Department: Technology and Society studies
Position in the faculty: Professor of Technology and Society, Chair of the Department of Technology and Society Studies


Prof. dr. T. Blom
 
Research interests: Theory of governance, European governance, systems theory
University: Maastricht University
Department: Philosophy
Position in the faculty: Professor of European Studies


Prof. dr. L. Borghans

Research interests: Labor Economics, Economics of Education
University: Maastricht University
Department: Economics
Position in the faculty: Professor of Labour Economics and Social Policy


Prof. dr. P. van den Bossche

Research interests: International Economic Law
University: Maastricht University
Department: International & European Law
Position in the faculty: Professor of International Economic Law, Head of the Department of International and European Law and Director of the Magister luris Communis Programme


Dr. P. Bridgen
 
Research interests: The history of social policy, welfare pluralism and the mixed economy of welfare, and pensions policy
University: University of Southampton
Department: Social Policy
Position in the faculty: Senior Lecturer in Social Policy


Prof. B. Cantillon

Research interests: Social security, poverty and social exclusion, social indicators, income distribution
University: University of Antwerp
Department: Sociology
Position in the faculty: Professor
 

Dr. T. Casier

 
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University: Maastricht University
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Prof. dr. D. Checchi

Research interests: Inequality, labour market institutions, education
University: Milan University
Department: Faculty of Economics
Position in the faculty: Dean, Professor of Economics


Dr. M. Cichon

Research interests: Financing social transfers/social protection systems, health and pension policies, impact and opportunities of globalization, alternative resource mobilisation strategies for social protection
University: Maastricht University
Department: Maastricht Graduate School of Governance
Position in the faculty: International Labour Office (since 1995): Social Protection Sector; Financial, Actuarial and Statistical Services Branch (SOC/FAS); as Branch Chief

Prof. P. Culpepper

Research interests: Politics of institutional change in advanced industrial democracies and the role of employers in politics
University: Harvard University
Department: Kennedy School of Government
Position in the faculty: Associate professor


Drs. D. de Crombrugghe

Research interests: Methodological aspects of empirical econometrics; issues of measurement, specification, and treatment evaluation; various applications, in particular in household surveys.
University: Maastricht University
Department Quantitative Economics (Faculty of Economics and Business Administration)
Position in the faculty: Lecturer in statistics and econometrics.


Prof. P. David

University: Stanford University
Department: Economics
Position: Professor of Economics and Professor of History; Senior Fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University
Other employment: Senior Fellow Oxford internet Institute; Emeritius fellow, All souls College Oxford; Professor Emeritius of Economics and Economic History University of Oxford; affiliated with MERIT


Prof. G. Esping-Andersen

Research interests: Comparative social policy, social inequality, life course analysis, employment
University: Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Department: Political and Social Sciences
Position in the faculty: Professor


Prof. J. Falkingham

Research interests: Ageing population, social security, impact of economic transition, redistributive effect of the welfare state
University: University of Southampton
Department: School of Social Sciences
Position in the faculty: Professor of Demography and International Social Policy


Prof. dr. K. de Feyter

Research interests: Human rights, humanitarian law, world development law
University: University of Antwerp
Department: International Law
Position in the faculty: Lecturer in International Law, Senior Lecturer in International Law and Politics


Prof. E. Fornero

Research interests: Households savings; Public and private pension systems; Pension reforms; Population ageing; Retirement choices; Life insurance.
University: University of Turin and CeRP (Center for Research on Pensions and Welfare Policies)
Department: Economics
Position in the faculty: Full Professor; Director of CeRP


T. Fox

Research interests: European Union Politics, European Risk Governance, Risk & Uncertainty and Public Policy
University: Maastricht University
Department: Faculty of Arts and Social Siences
Position in the faculty: Teaching assistant


Dr. F. Gassmann

Research interests: Effectiveness of social policy systems, safety nets, poverty
University: Maastricht University
Department: Maastricht Graduate School of Governance
Position in the faculty: Managing Director European Graduate Programme in Social Protection Policy


J. Ghysels

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University: Maastricht University
Department:  
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B. Golsteyn

Research interests: Labour, Human capital, Non-cognitive skills
University: Maastricht University
Department: Department of Economics
Position in the faculty: Assistant professor
 

Dr. M. Goodwin

Research interests: International law, notably in the area of development, participation and human rights in norm generation and implementation, in particular, concerning non-state actors
University: Maastricht University
Department: Department of International and European Law / METRO
Position in the faculty: Lecturer in International Law


Prof. dr. W. Groot

Research interests: Health Economics
University: Maastricht University
Department: Health Organization, Policy and Economics
Position in the faculty: Professor of Health Economics


Dr. G. Hageman

Research interests: Chemoprevention of chronic diseases, i.e. identification and evaluation of food components with preventive activities on inflammatory diseases and cancer, food toxicology, and genetic toxicology
University: Maastricht University
Department: Health Risk Analysis and Toxicology
Position in the faculty: Assistant professor (Nutrition and toxicology)


Dr. K. Hagemejer

Research interests: Economics of social security and labour markets
University: Warsaw University
Faculty: Faculty of Economic Sciences
Department: Department of Economics
Position in the faculty: Assistant professor (on leave since November 1993)

University: Maastricht University (since 2001)
Department: Maastricht Graduate School of Governance
Position in the faculty: Guest lecturer - Social Protection Financing programme
Other employment: International Labour Office (since November 1993): Social Protection Sector; Financial, Actuarial and Statistical Services Branch (SOC/FAS), as Senior Economist


Dr. A. Halachmi

Research interests: Public productivity, quality improvement and management of government agencies
University: Tennessee State University
Department: Institute of Government
Position in the faculty: Professor


Prof. dr. K. Hinrichs

Research interests: Comparative Social Policy, Pension Politics; Ageing Societies
University: University of Bremen
Department: Centre for Social Policy Research
Position in the faculty: Senior Research Associate (Bremen)
Other employment: Professor of Political Science (Humboldt-University Berlin)


Dr. J.A. Hoogenboezem

Research interests: Political leadership, defence and war studies.
University: Maastricht University
Department: Faculty of Arts and Culture, Department of Political Science
Position in the faculty: Lecturer


Dr. M. Huynen

Research interests: Global health, Sustainable development, Globalisation, Global environmental change, Integrated Assessment, Sustainability Science
University: Maastricht University
Department: ICIS
Position in the faculty: Research Fellow


Prof. dr. A. Jousten

Research interests: Tax policy, social security, labour mobility, life-cycle modelling, micro-modelling
University: University of Liège, Belgium
Department: Management School
Position in the faculty: Professor


Prof. Mr. dr. A. Kamperman Sanders

Research interests: European and international intellectual and industrial property law, competition law
University: Maastricht University
Department: Private Law
Position in the faculty: Professor International Law

Pawel Kaczmarczyk
 
Research interests: mobility and migration, labour market, macroeconomics, statistics (quantitative methods)
University: Warsaw University
Department: Faculty of Economic Sciences, Centre of Migration Research         
Position in the faculty: Deputy Director of the Centre of Migration Research, Head of the Central and Eastern European Economic Research Center and Joint Program of Doctoral Training (at the Faculty of Economic Sciences), Assistant Professor in Chair for Demography (at the Faculty of Economic Sciences)       


Dr. S. Kendie

Research interests: The process and mechanisms of development, development governance
University: University of Cape Coast (Ghana)
Department: Centre for Development Studies
Position in the faculty: enior research fellow, director of the Centre for Development Studies


Prof. mr. S. Klosse

Research interests: Employment and social security law from a (inter)national and European perspective
University: Maastricht University
Department: Public Law
Position in the faculty: Professor of Social Security Law; Head of the department of Public Law
Other employment: Deputy judge in the Court of Law in the Hague


Dr. K. Križ
 
Research interests: The effects of social policy on families' everyday lives in Germany, England and Sweden, transnational family life among new immigrants in the United States, and family and child protection policies in a comparative/international perspective
University: Tufts University/ Harvard University
Department: Department of Sociology
Position in the faculty: Projects Coordinator with Multidisicplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy (Harvard) and lecturer (Tufts)
Other employment:  


Dr. M. van de Laar
 
Research interests: Strategic investment behaviour of companies, mergers and acquisitions, alliances
University: Maastricht University
Department: Maastricht Graduate School of Governance
Position in the faculty: Senior Programme Manager


T. Lenoy

 
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University: Maastricht University
Department:
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Dr. C. Leonards

Research interests: Cultural history of international congresses and conferences, forced migration issues, philanthropy and social policies, globalisation and inequality
University: Maastricht University
Department: History
Position in the faculty: Assistant Professor


Prof. Dr. J. Maarse

Research interests: International comparative analysis of health care systems, the impact of the European Community upon health and health care, governance (with a special emphasis upon institutional theory).
University: Maastricht University
Department: Health Organisation, Policy and Economics (HOPE)
Position in the faculty: professor in Policy Analysis (emphasis upon health care)


Prof. T. Magnac

Research interests: Applied and theoretical econometrics, labour supply and household behaviour, retirement models
University: University of Toulouse
Department: Economics
Position in the faculty: Professor


Prof. Dr. P. Martens

Research interests: Sustainable development, globalisation, environmental change, integrated assessment
University: Maastricht University
Department: International Centre for Integrated assessment and Sustainable development (ICIS)
Position in the faculty: Professor of Sustainable Development, Director International Centre for Integrative Studies
Other employment: Professor at the Open University Netherlands, Hogeschool Zuyd


Dr. I. Marx

Research interests: Comparative welfare state analysis, poverty in relation to labour market performance, social policy, migration
University: University of Antwerp
Department: Centre for Social Policy
Position in the faculty: Senior Research Fellow
 

A. McCord

Research interests: Public works programmes, social protection policy design and evaluation, and poverty reduction programmes
University: University Capetown
Department: SALDRU (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit)
School of Economics, Commmerce Faculty
Position in the faculty: Manager of the Public Works Reseach Project


D. Mcevoy

Research interests: adapting to climate change, institutional management, multi-level governance, climate policy
University: Maastricht University
Department: ICIS
Position in the faculty: senior researcher
Other employment: honorary research fellow (University of Manchester), visiting senior researcher (IVM, VU Amsterdam)


Prof. dr. J. Meyer

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University: George Mason University
Department:  
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Drs. A. van de Meerendonk

Research interests: Issues pertaining to the organizational framework for work and income schemes, with an emphasis on the application of contracting arrangements and involvement of private providers. Comparative international research on Welfare State reform. Pension systems.
University: Maastricht University
Department: MGSoG (Maastricht Graduate School of Governance)
Position in the faculty: Lecturer Social Protection Financing
Other employment: Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment Labour Market Directorate, The Hague, Netherlands
ILO: assignments in Egypt, PRC (China) and Sri Lanka


M. Muniz Castillo

Research interests: Human development, Social protection, Development cooperation, Investment decisions in private and public sectors, Strategic planning, Latin American economies
University: Maastricht University
Department: MGSoG (Maastricht Graduate School of Governance)
Position in the faculty: Researcher


N. Molenaers

Research interests: Aid policies, Social capital
University: Universiteit Antwerpen
Department: Institute of Development Policy and Management (IDPM)
Position in the faculty: Researcher and teacher


Prof. dr. J. Muysken

Research interests: Wage formation, labour demand, matching problems, analysis of unemployment and endogenous growth and diffusion of technologies
University: Maastricht University (since 1984)
Department: Department of Economics
Position in the faculty: Full Professor of Economics


Dr. W. Nauta

Research interests: The changing role of NGOs in South Africa; Governance and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa; Poverty, inequality and access to public goods; State-civil society-market relations; Relationship between the urban and the rural; Land reform; Poverty in Dutch inner cities
University: Maastricht University
Department: Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences
Position in the faculty: Assistant Professor Sociology of Development


Prof. dr. C. de Neubourg

Research interests: Social policy, Performance measurement in governance, socio-economics of the welfare states
University: Maastricht University
Department: Maastricht Graduate School of Governance
Position in the faculty: Academic director


Dr. C. Neuhold

Research interests: Decision making and institutes in the European Union relations European Parliament and national governments within the European Union, democratic legitimacy and treaties on Europe, policy and policy making in the European Union
University: Maastricht University
Department: Philosophy
Position in the faculty: Director of studies European Public Affairs Master


Prof. dr. M. Okólski

Research interests: Social change and demographic change, general demography, migrants in labour markets, migration theory, determinants of mortality
University: Warsaw University
Department: Chair of Demography and Post-graduate Study of International Migration (PSIM).
Position in the faculty: Professor (Chair of Demography) and Director of CMS and PSIM


Prof. dr. C. Pahl-Wostl

Research interests: Participatory integrated assessment, societal transformation processes towards sustainability, evolutionary dynamics of socio-economic systems, agent-based modelling
University: University of Osnabrück
Faculty: Mathematics/Computer Science
Department: Institute of Environmental Systems Research
Position in the faculty: Professor


Prof. E. Palmer

Research interests: Social insurance, social policy, transition economics, finance, macro- economics
University: Uppsala University
Faculty: Department of Economics Department
Position in the faculty: Professor in Social Insurance


Prof. dr. S. Perelman

Research interests: Fiscal economics, comparative tax policy, tax policies in the European Union, taxation of cross border income
University: University of Liège
Department: Research Centre on Public and Population Economics
Position in the faculty: Professor


Prof. P. Pestieau

Research interests: Public Economics, social insurance, population economic
University: University of Liège
Department: Economics
Position in the faculty: Professor
Other affiliation: Member of CORE and Delta, CEPR and CESifo research fellow


Dr. K. Peters

Research interests: Regional and urban governance, Power and political decision-making
Position in the faculty: Freelance lecturer
Other affiliation: Freelance researcher and writer


Dr. E. de Regt

Research interests: Labour economics, labour demand, unemployment, wage determination, institutions, personnel, economics
University: Maastricht University
Department: Department of Economics
Position in the faculty: Assistant Professor


Drs. K. Roelen

Research interests: Social and economic policy, employment and welfare policies
University: Maastricht University
Department: Maastricht Graduate School of Governance
Position in the faculty: Teacher, researcher and coordinator Master program in Public Policy and Human Development


Dr. M. Rhodes

Research interests: European public policy including comparative industrial, employment and welfare policies
University: European University Institute - Florence
Faculty: Political Science
Position in the faculty: Professor


D. Rodriguez Rosario

Research interests: Child poverty and well-being of children; household economics (modeling bargained household decisions) and behavioural health economics.
University: Maastricht University
Faculty: Maastricht Graduate School of Governance
Position in the faculty: Research Fellow


Prof. C. Saraceno

Research interests: Social Policy, Family arrangements and Work-family systems, gender arrangements, poverty
University: University of Turin
Department: Social Sciences
Position in the faculty: Professor


W. Scholz
 
Research interests: Financial aspects, economic implications of social protection systems; social budgeting
Organisation: International Labour Office
Department: Social Sciences
Position in the faculty: Lecturer in Social Budgeting
Other Employmment:
Senior Economist; International labour Office, Geneva, Switzerland


Prof. dr. L. Soete

Research interests: Theoretical and empirical studies of the impact of technological change and innovation, with emphasis on new information and communication technologies on employment, economic growth, and international trade and investment, as well as the related policy and measurement issues
University: Maastricht University
Department: United Nations University - MERIT (Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology
Position in the faculty: Professor of International Economics and Director of UNU-MERIT
Other employment: - Member of the Dutch Science and Technology Policy Board (AWT)
- vice-president of the European Advisory Board on Social Sciences and Humanities


D. Sologon

Research interests:
University: Maastricht University
Department:
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Prof. dr. A. Szirmai

Research interests: technology and Development Economics;  relationships between innovation, technological change and (productivity) performance in sectors of manufacturing in developing countries.
University: Maastricht University/UNU-MERIT
Department: Maastricht Graduate School of Governance
Position in the faculty: professor Development Economicsr


P. Valkering

Research interests: Integrated Assessment, Agent based modeling, Water management, Sustainable development
University: Maastricht University
Department: ICIS
Position in the faculty: Research fellow


Prof. dr. T. van Veen

Research interests: Labour economics, unions, monetary economics, financial economics
University: Maastricht University
Department: Department of Economics
Position in the faculty: Associate Professor


Dr. E. Versluis

Research interests: European governance, Policy analysis (European policy process; implementation and compliance of EU policy), Europeanization
University: Maastricht University
Department: Political Science
Position in the faculty: Director of Studies Master European Public Affairs, assistent professor European Studies


Prof. dr. E. Vos

Research interests: EU Law, institutional law (comitology and agencies), free movement of goods, market integration and risk regulation (precautionary principle)
University: Maastricht University
Department: Department of International and European Law
Position in the faculty: Professor of European Law


Dr. R. Wagener

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University: Maastricht University
Department:  
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Dr. A. Weber

Research interests: Financial aspects, Economic implications and design of social protection systems, Administrative issues
University: Asian Development Bank
Department: Social sciences
Position in the faculty: Lecturer in Social Protection
Other employment: Social protection specialist (Asia Development, Manilla)


Dr. B. ter Weel

Research interests: Research interests: The non-cognitive determinants of labour-market outcomes. The impact of technological change, with emphasis on new information and communication technologies on labour-market outcomes.
University: Maastricht University
Department: Department of Economics and UNU-MERIT
Position in the faculty: Assistant professor of International Economics and senior researcher at UNU-MERIT
Other employment: - Research affiliate at IZA (Bonn), METEOR (Maastricht) and SKOPE (Oxford)
- Member of the Faculty Council (Maastricht)


C. de Wilde
 
Research interests: Dynamics of inequality and poverty, Social exclusion, cross-national differences in stratification arising from life-course patterns, institutional arrangements and family structures
University: Maastricht University
Position in the faculty: Research fellow


Mr. Hiroshi Yamabana

Research interests: Social security policy design based on qualitative researches, with emphasis on social security financing (e.g. future financing options of social security, quantitative modelling, quantitative studies on social security coverage)
University: Maastricht University
Faculty: Maastricht Graduate School of Governance
Department: UNU-MERIT
Position in the faculty: ILO Lecturer on Quantitative Techniques in Health Care Financing
Other employment: Social Security Specialist, ILO Sub-regional Office for East Asia, Bangkok


Mrs. Hao Yu

Research interests: Time series analysis, pension funds, monetary policy, fiscal policy
University: Maastricht University
Faculty: Maastricht Graduate School of Governance
Position in the faculty: Research fellow


Dr. T. Ziesemer

Research interests: Growth and development, international trade and debt, technical change, environmental economics, microeconomics and labour markets
University: Maastricht University
Department: UNU-MERIT and Department of Economics
Position in the faculty: Associate Professor of Economics


Dr. A. van Zeijl

Research interests: Governance for sustainable development, Measuring sustainable development, sustainability indicators, regional comparability and operationalising concepts of sustainable development
University: Maastricht University
Department: ICIS
Position in the faculty: Research fellow


Dr. E. de Zutter

Research interests:  
University: Maastricht University
Department:  
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