Prof.dr. Arco Timmermans is Professor of Public Affairs at the Institute of Public Administration at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs. He studied Political Science at Leiden University and did his PhD in the Social and Political Sciences at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy). Positions he held were at the Delft University of Technology, the University of Twente, and Leiden University, where he also was research director of the Montesquieu Institute until 2014. His teaching for the Institute of Public Administration is about public policy in the Netherlands and the EU, and interest representation and public affairs. Arco Timmermans' research is on the dynamics of the public and political agenda. He analyzes how interest groups play the game of politics, form coalitions, and how they find access to venues for influence. This teaching and research work also is oriented to promoting the dialogue between research and practice.
Gerard Breeman studied Public Administration at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam. In 2006 he obtained his PhD from Leiden University on the topic of trust and public policy making. Between 2006 and 2015 he was assistant professor at the Public Administration and Policy Group at Wageningen University. Since February 2015 Gerard Breeman has been working at the Institute of Public Administration at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs. He teaches policy making and research design. He is co-director of the comparative policy agenda setting team in the Netherlands and co-chair of the ECPR research network on food policy and governance. His main areas of expertise are comparative public policies, trust, policy agenda setting, trust, food governance and European Union policies.
