Roeland Jaap (Roel) in 't Veld (born 20 July 1942) is a Dutch scholar of public administration and
Labour Party politician. He was briefly
State Secretary for the
Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science ( nl, Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschappen; OCW) is the Dutch Ministry responsible for education, culture, science, research, gender equality and communications. The Ministry was cre ...
in 1993.
Biography
Born and raised in
The Hague
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, In 't Veld attended the
gymnasium from 1953 to 1959. In 1959 he obtained his Propaedeutics in economics at the
Netherlands School of Economics
Erasmus University Rotterdam (abbreviated as ''EUR'', nl, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam ) is a public research university located in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The university is named after Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, a 15th-century humanist ...
in Rotterdam (nowadays
Erasmus University Rotterdam). He continued to study law at the
University of Leiden, where he obtained his MA in 1964. Later in 1975 he obtained a PhD in law, his thesis being titled ''Majority System Theory and Prosperity''.
In 1964 he began his career as lecturer in economics at the University of Leiden. In 1969 he became policy officer for planning and budgeting at the main service Planning Information and Allocation (PISA) of the University of Leiden. In 1976-77 he was a researcher at the
(NIAS). In 1977 he was appointed Professor of Public Administration at the
University of Nijmegen
Radboud University (abbreviated as RU, nl, Radboud Universiteit , formerly ''Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen'') is a public research university located in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The university bears the name of Saint Radboud, a 9th century ...
.
From 1982 to 1988 he was Director General at the Dutch
Ministry of Education and Science. In 1989 he founded together with
Uri Rosenthal
Uriël "Uri" Rosenthal (born 19 July 1945) is a retired Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and political scientist.
Rosenthal a political scientist by occupation, was elected as a Member of the Senate on 8 Ju ...
, the Dutch School of Public Administration (NSOB), and until 2004 was its dean. From 2007 to 2010 he was a lecturer in Democracy at the
Inholland University of Applied Sciences
Inholland University of Applied Sciences (; ; ) is a university of applied sciences with its campuses located in 8 different cities placed throughout the western Netherlands with an education campus in every main city of the Randstad – the coun ...
.
In 't Veld returned to the academic world from 1988 to 1993, as Professor of Public Administration at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. In 1993 he was appointed Secretary of State for Education and Science as a successor to
Jacques Wallage. Labour leader
Wim Kok
Willem "Wim" Kok (; 29 September 1938 – 20 October 2018) was a Dutch politician and trade union leader who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 22 August 1994 until 22 July 2002.[University of Amsterdam
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, and hereby to 2002 Rector of Sioo, inter-university center for organizing and changing. Besides. From 1995 to 2004 he was also professor of management in public administration at the
University of Utrecht, and since 2002 extraordinary professor hybrid organizations,
Open University of the Netherlands
The Open University of the Netherlands ( nl, Open Universiteit Nederland) is a Dutch institution for distance learning at university level. It is an independent government-funded university and uses a variety of methods, including written mater ...
, Heerlen. Since 2005 he is also Professor of Governance at the University of Netherlands Antilles, and from 2007 to 2010 lecturer democracy to Inholland. Since November 2010 he has been professor at the
University of Tilburg, holding a chair in "Governance and Sustainability".
In 't Veld has performed many other positions.
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op parlement.com. He has been honored as a Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion .
Selected publications
* Veld, Roel in 't, and D.J. Kraan (eds.). ''Environmental protection: public or private choice''. Kluwer 1991.
* Roeland J. in 't Veld, Hans-Peter Füssel,
Guy R. Neave. ''Relations between state and higher education''. 1996.
*
De Bruijn, Hans,
ten Heuvelhof, Ernst
Ernst Frederik ten Heuvelhof (born 1954 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch organizational theorist, and professor of public administration at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of Delft University of Technology, and professor of public administ ...
, in 't Veld. ''Process management why project management fails in complex decision making processes''. Boston, MA: Kluwer, 2002.
* Veld, Roel in 't, ''Knowledge democracy consequences for science, politics, and media''. Springer Verlag 2010.
References
External links
Roel in t Veldhomepage
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1942 births
Living people
Dutch legal scholars
Dutch political writers
Dutch public administration scholars
State Secretaries for Education of the Netherlands
Erasmus University Rotterdam alumni
Leiden University alumni
Academic staff of Leiden University
Academic staff of Radboud University Nijmegen
Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam
Academic staff of Utrecht University
Academic staff of Tilburg University
Politicians from The Hague