Dr. Maarten Hillebrandt

Biography

Maarten Hillebrandt is an Assistant Professor of Public Management at Utrecht University specializing in EU institutional law and governance. He has widely published on topics related to government transparency and policy in the EU. His recent research focuses on public information-related questions such as the quantification of performance in the public sector and the governance dilemmas posed by disinformation. Maarten has held prior positions at the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights at Helsinki University, the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University, and the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance at the University of Amsterdam. He has been a visiting fellow at several prestigious institutions, including the University of Lausanne, Gothenburg University, and the European University Institute in Florence. Maarten has participated in multiple-year international research projects, notably on Open Government in the EU, the quantification of administrative capacity, and transparency in the EU. His dissertation on the historical development of access to documents policy within the Council of the EU was awarded the annual Van Poelje Prize in the field of public administration in the Netherlands and Flanders.

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