Professor Theo Toonen is Dean of the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at Delft University of Technology, and professor of Public Administration at Delft University of technology and Leiden University, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Professor Theo Toonen graduated in political science from the Catholic University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands and received his PhD degree in 1987 in Public Administration from Erasmus University Rotterdam.
He has been professor of Public Administration in Leiden since 1989. In 2003, he became Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Leiden University, The Netherlands. In March 2008 he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at Delft University of Technology.
Toonen’s research focuses on themes ranging from water management and governance, multi-level governance, (international) comparative public administration, European knowledge economy, and public sector and administrative reform to international urban and regional government. He has been active in the areas of mobility and transport needs of commuters and residents. He has an extensive record of scientific publications, including Multi-Level Governance (MLG) and Intergovernmental Relations (IGR): Integrating the perspectives, Governance and Intergovernmental Relations in the European Union and the United States (2009), Competency management and civil service professionalism in Dutch Central Government, Public Administration - an international quarterly (2005), Higher Civil Servants in the Netherlands: edging away from pure mutuality, Controlling Modern Government: Variety, Commonality and Change (2004), and Administrative reform: analytics, Handbook of Public Administration (2003).
He is a member of the Advisory Committee Water, the Council for Transport, Public Works and Water Management and the board of the StimulanSZ Foundation, The Netherlands.
