Bas Dentersis full professor of Public Administration and Head of the Department of Public Administration in the Faculty of Behavioural, Management & Social Sciences at the University of Twente (Enschede, The Netherlands). He is the Scientific Director of the Netherlands Institute for Government. He is also the programme director of the Innovation of Governance programme of the University of Twente’s priority research institute IGS. He is scientific advisor of KISS (Expertise Centre for Urban Affairs). KISS is a joint initiative of the Province of Overijssel, the five major urban municipalities in this province, the University of Twente and other regional institutions of higher education, private organisations (from the business community and civil society).
From 2000-2010 he was the convenor of the Standing Group on Local Politics and Government (LOGOPOL) of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR). He is member of the Board of the European Urban Research Association.
He is the managing editor of Bestuurswetenschappen, the oldest Dutch public administration and member of the editorial board of Local Government Studies, the leading European journal in the field of local politics and governance. He has published on issues of urban governance, citizen initiatives, citizen participation and local democracy more generally.
Venue: University of Potsdam, Campus Griebnitzsee, House 7, Room 227
Date: 6 July 2016
Time: 12-14 c.t.