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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 (; OCW) is the Dutch Ministry responsible for education, culture, science, research, gender equality and communications. The Ministry was created in 1918 as the Ministry of Education, Arts and Sci ...
in 1993.


Biography

Born and raised in
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, In 't Veld attended the gymnasium from 1953 to 1959. In 1959 he obtained his Propaedeutics in economics at the
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in Rotterdam (nowadays
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). He continued to study law at the
University of Leiden Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; ) is a public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. Established in 1575 by William, Prince of Orange as a Protestant institution, it holds the distinction of being the oldest university in the Neth ...
, 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
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(NIAS). In 1977 he was appointed Professor of Public Administration at the
University of Nijmegen Radboud University (abbreviated as RU, , formerly ) is a public research university located in Nijmegen, Netherlands. RU has seven faculties and more than 24,000 students. Established in 1923, Radboud University has consistently been included in ...
. From 1982 to 1988 he was Director General at the Dutch
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. In 1989 he founded together with
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, 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 large university of applied sciences located in eight main cities of the Randstad, the central-western region of the Netherlands and the country's economic, political and cultural hub. With ove ...
. 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
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. Labour leader
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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
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, and since 2002 extraordinary professor hybrid organizations,
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, 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
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, holding a chair in "Governance and Sustainability". In 't Veld has performed many other positions.www.parlement.com Dr. R.J. (Roel) in 't Veld
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, 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.


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