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| Born | Maarten Allard Hajer (1962-08-08)8 August 1962 (age 63) |
| Occupations | Political scientist, urban planner |
| Known for | Director of theNetherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (2008–2015) |
Maarten Allard Hajer (born 8 August 1962) is a Dutchpolitical scientist andregional planner.[1][2] Since 1 October 2015, Hajer has been Faculty Professor of Urban Futures atUtrecht University, where he leads the Urban Futures Studio.[3]
He was a Professor of Public Policy at theUniversity of Amsterdam between 1998 and 2015 and Director of theNetherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) from 1 October 2008 to 1 October 2015.[4] In September 2014, Hajer was appointed the Chief Curator of IABR–2016–THE NEXT ECONOMY, the 7th edition of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam.[5]
Hajer obtained hisPhD in politics fromOxford University. In the early 1990s, he was employed by theUniversity of Leiden as researcher at the Centre for Law and Public Policy. Between 1993 and 1996, he was a member of the scientific staff at theLudwig-Maximilians University of Munich, working with sociologistUlrich Beck. Following that, he became senior researcher at the DutchScientific Council for Government Policy (WRR), where he was project coordinator of a report on spatial development politics.
Besides being a scientist, Hajer has held a number of public appointments. As a member of the VROM-raad (the VROM-council of the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment ) he was responsible for the advisory document on climate change as a structural spatial issueDe Hype voorbij – klimaatverandering als structureel ruimtelijk vraagstuk (VROM-raad advice 060, 2007). In addition, he was a member of a programme committee on theDutch Labour Party’s manifesto (led by Willem Witteveen). Furthermore, Hajer was a columnist for the Dutch newspapersHet Parool andStaatscourant, and served as member of the jury for theSpinoza Prize, the Dutch EO Weijers competition for landscape architecture, and forEUROPAN 9, the European award for young architects.
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