The Institute of Public Administration is located in the middle of major government institutions in the international city of peace and justice, The Hague. The institute is one of the largest institutions on Public Administration in The Netherlands and has an excellent reputation worldwide.

Andrei Poama’s interdisciplinary research covers ethics in public policy, democratic theory, criminal justice, AI technologies in governance, and experimental legal philosophy, focusing on public value, punishment, and electoral ethics.

Ben Kuipers is professor of Public Leadership at FGGA. The Chair in Public Leadership (is funded externally by the VPL (Furthering Leadership) partnership and is embedded in the Leiden Leadership Centre (LLC). In his research and teaching, Ben focuses on public leadership, teamwork, and change in the…

Martin Sievert studies citizen-state interactions and human resource management in the public sector. His research agenda includes both public management and general management research. Currently, his projects focus on symbolic representation, organizational legitimacy, public sector recruiting, person-environment…

Nadine Raaphorst's research focuses on street-level bureaucracy and decision-making. She uses both qualitative and quantitative methods, and relies on sociological theories and perspectives to understand frontline decision-making

Roel Bekker's researches the failures of government: what are government failures, what are the causes of government failures, what are the most used apologies, what can be done to decrease the chance of making failures?

Petra van den Bekerom is an Assistant Professor in Public Management at Leiden University and program director of the Bachelor’s program in Public Administration. Her research centers on how public service delivery shapes equity in outcomes and how different groups experience and benefit from public…

Sem Grootscholten researched the impact of civil servants on political decision-making and the change in relations between public and private parties in the educational material industry as a result of changing laws.

Gerard Breeman teaches policy making, media-logics, and governance of sustainability. His main areas of expertise are comparative public policies, trust, policy agenda setting, trust, sustainability and European Union policies.

When a breach of academic integrity in research is proven, the Executive Board of Leiden University or the Board of Governors of the LUMC can decide, following advice from the Academic Integrity Committee, that publications based on the research must be retracted. The retraction guidelines describe…

Joris van der Voet studies how public managers bring about change to enhance effectiveness, adaptivity, and resilience of the public sector amidst a myriad of societal challenges, adverse performance, and declining financial resources. His research agenda informs public administration research and…

Gus Greenstein is an assistant professor at the Institute of Public Administration.

Sarah Giest is a Professor of Public Policy with a focus on Innovation and Sustainability at the Public Administration Institute of Leiden University. She has been developing an interdisciplinary research agenda and teaching on using a policy lens to look at technical, environmental and social solutions…

Júlia is a PhD Fellow in Digitalisation and Public Policy at The Hague Centre for Digital Governance.

Eduard Schmidt is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Public Administration. His research and teaching focuses on leadership, organizational change and creating public value, with a particular focus on organisations in the social domain and health care.

Tom Geukemeijer is a teacher of Public Administration at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs.

Anchrit Wille has held the special chair of Transitions in the public sector established by the 'Stichting Leerstoelen CAOP' since November 2021. In her research she works at the interface of public administration and political science. Central themes include: political-administrative relations in national…

Lars Brummel works as an assistant professor at the Institute of Public Administration. His research focuses on the legitimacy of (semi-)public organisations amid changes in their political and social context (e.g., due to crises or political polarization). In the past, he conducted research on the…

Antonella Maiello is an Assistant Professor of Governance of Sustainability at the Institute of Public Administration, Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs of Leiden University (The Hague – Campus). Her research concerns processes, practices, and experiments of (social and economic) change in different…

Amandine Lerusse examines, through an experimental approach, politicians and public managers' decision-making behavior and preferences towards external service providers. She is also interested in citizens-state interactions.

Shivant Jhagroe is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Public Administration. His current research focusses on marginalised and more-than-human actors in policy and politics (e.g. racialised/low-income groups, ecosystems, algorithms).

Alex Ingrams currently teaches in masters and bachelors courses with the Institute of Public Administration and the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science. These courses focus on digital government, public management and public policy. His research interests centre on role of technology in government…

Emma Brekelmans works as a PhD-Fellow at the Institute of Public Administration. Her research focuses on the quality of interaction between frontline professionals and citizen-clients in the context of public service delivery. Additionally, she teaches in the English Master Public Administration and…

Clara Cotroneo is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. She is also member of the research group on War, Peace and Justice, within which she is completing her doctoral studies.

As professor of Violence and Policing, I study various forms of violence in public spaces and how violence is used to enforce the moral and legal order. My research focuses on violence between (groups of) youth, threatening and violent confrontations between police and citizens, public disorder,…

Bernard Bernards is an assistant professor at the Institute of Public Administration of Leiden University. His research and teaching focusses on topics of professional decision-making, uncertainty, leadership, and bureaucracy, with a specific focus on the domain of health and welfare.

Sanneke Kuipers, Full Professor in Crisis Governance and Scientific Director (WD) of the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) of Leiden University. Sanneke combines crisis management scholarship with practical experience as a consultant. She publishes on crisis management, institutionalization,…

Sandra Groeneveld’s research and teaching focus on the human dimension of bureaucracy, with particular attention to leadership, diversity, and inclusion in public organizations. Her work shows that opening the ‘black box’ of organizational behaviour contributes to a deeper understanding of how government…

Alexandre Afonso's research focusses on the comparative political economy of European countries, and the relationship between welfare states, labour market institutions and immigration.

Bram Klievink is Professor of Public Administration, with a special focus on Digitalisation and Public Policy. He has a strong fascination with the interface between digitalisation and government. His research is about how digital innovations challenge the incumbent practices and institutions of public…

Brendan Carroll is assistant professor at the Institute of Public Administration. Carroll examines how member states’ administrative structures adapt to and seek to influence evolving EU policies through their role in the implementation of regulatory policy. In his research on public organizations,…

In her research, Carola van Eijk mainly focuses on the co-production of public services. In co-production, both the citizens and the government interact to produce several kinds of public services. Carola’s ongoing research includes aspects of why citizens and public professionals are willing to engage…

Merel Sprenger is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), studying femicide in the Netherlands by linking data from the Dutch Femicide Monitor with CBS microdata.

As a professor of International Governance Kutsal Yesilkagit is driven by the desire to understand how political-administrative systems function. His work is all about doing research and teaching on how politicians, civil servants, and public institutions affect the outcomes of policies, societal events…

Dr. Young’s primary research agenda focuses on public sector innovation implementation, particularly artificial intelligence (AI) and related technologies. His work examines how institutional arrangements and the fit between technology and task shape available policy choices, and lead to implementation…

Contacts for the master's programme ICT in Business. General contacts   Director of education Dr. M. van Leeuwen Education coordinator E. Caubo Study advisor S.N. van der Valk 

Since November 2014 Jan de Keijser is working as a Professor of Criminology at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology.