Curriculum Vitae Dr. Wouter Van Dooren Personalia Name: VAN DOOREN Surname: Wouter Professional Address: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven) Instituut voor de Overheid - Public Management Institute, E. Van Evenstraat 2c - 3000 Leuven Tel: 0032 16 32 36 03 Fax: 0032 16 32 32 67 E-mail: wouter.vandooren@soc.kuleuven.ac.be Date of Birth: 08 03 1977 Place of Birth: Turnhout, Belgium Citizenship: Belgian Studies Higher Education (academic) Period: 1995-1999 Degree: University: Dissertation topic: Grade: Period: 1997-2000 Degree: University: Grade: Period: 2002-2006 Degree: Dissertation Topic: University: Grade: Licentiate in political and social science K.U.Leuven Policy Networks in Higher Education: the case of the decree on the polytechnics Great distinction teaching certificate K.U.Leuven Distinction Doctor in political and social science Performance measurement in the Flemish Public Sector K.U.Leuven Not Applicable CV Wouter van Dooren 1
Career From 2000 to present: Researcher at the Public Management Institute (K.U.Leuven) 2000 Research project: Subsidies of the Flemish government to the communities and the centres for public welfare; a proposal of an enabling law. (Commissioned by the Ministry of the Flemish Community) 2000 Research project: Cultural co-operation between Flanders and the Netherlands. A report on the bottlenecks in subsidising joint cultural projects (Commissioned by the Commission of the Cultural Treaty between the Netherlands and Flanders) 2001 Research Project: Local finance and central funds. An international comparison of distribution formulas of central funds for local government. 2001-2002 Measuring and comparing local administrative capacity: the design of a monitor for local authority in Flanders (Commissioned by the Department of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of the Flemish Community) 2001-2006 Research line on financial management and monitoring: Progress in performance measurement systems. (Commissioned by the Ministry of the Flemish Community) 2003-2006 Doctoral research on performance measurement in the Flemish public sector; causes, conditions and effects. (PhD research) 2006 OECD research paper on recent trends in output measurement (commissioned by the Public Governance Section) (with Geert Bouckaert and Miekatrien Sterck) 2006 OECD research paper on subnational measurement systems (commissioned by the Public Governance Section) (with Geert Bouckaert and Miekatrien Sterck) 2006 Research on local planning requirements imposed by the Flemish Government (commissioned by the Minister of the Interior) (with Geert Bouckaert and Ellen Wayenberg) Publications PhD Van Dooren Wouter (2006). Performance measurement in the Flemish public sector: a supply and demand approach. K.U.Leuven. Faculty of Social Sciences. Articles in international peer-reviewed journals Van Dooren Wouter (forthcoming). What makes organisations measure? Hypotheses on the causes and conditions of performance measurement. Financial Accountability and Management Review. Van Dooren, Wouter (2004). Supply and demand of policy indicators: a cross sectoral comparison. Public Management Review. 6:4. pp. 511-531. CV Wouter van Dooren 2
Bouckaert Geert, Van Dooren Wouter, Verschuere Bram, Voets Joris & Wayenberg Ellen (2003) Trajectories for modernising local governance - revisiting the Flanders case. Public Management Review. 4 (3): 309-320. (This article won the award for best article of the Public Management Review 2003) Bouckaert Geert & Van Dooren Wouter (2002) Book Review: Performance measurement. Getting results". Public Productivity and Management Review, March 2002. 25(3): 329-335. Chapters in international peer-reviewed books Van de Walle Steven, Sterck Miekatrien, Van Dooren Wouter, Bouckaert Geert & Pommer Evert (2004). Public administration In: Social and Cultural Planning Office. Public performance: An international comparison of education, health care, law and order and public administration. The Hague: Social and Cultural Planning Office. pp. 234-270. Van Dooren Wouter & Van de Walle Steven (2004) Why do Belgian public agencies use the Common Assessment Framework (CAF)?" In: Löffler Elke & Vintar Mirko (Eds). Improving the Quality of East and Western European Public Services. Ashgate: Hampshire. pp. 157-172 Van Dooren Wouter, Thijs, Nick and Bouckaert Geert (2004) Quality Management and the management of quality in European Public Administrations" In: Löffler Elke & Vintar Mirko (Eds). Improving the Quality of East and Western European Public Services. Ashgate: Hampshire. pp. 91-107 Bouckaert Geert & Van Dooren Wouter (2003) Performance management in public sector organisations" In: Löffler Elke & Boivard Tony (Eds.). Public management and governance. Routledge: London. pp. 127-136. Van Dooren, Wouter, Voets, Joris, Verschuere, Bram and Wayenberg, Ellen (forthcoming). Flanders' central-local relations in (r-)evolution: Local capacity building through new financial grant systems in Flanders. in Boivaird Tony and Löffler Elke. Articles in other journals Van Dooren Wouter (2004) Prestatiemeting in Vlaanderen: Op zoek naar de eenheid in veelheid Vlaams Tijdschrift voor Overheidsmanagement (VTOM). 9 (1): 12-17 Van Dooren Wouter & Van de Walle Steven (2004). Zelfevaluatie of zelfpromotie? Een onderzoek naar de motieven voor het gebruik van een kwaliteitsmodel: het Common Assessment Framework. Bestuurskunde. 13(2): 87-98 Books Bouckaert Geert, De Peuter Bart & Van Dooren Wouter (2003) Meten en vergelijken van lokale bestuurlijke ontwikkeling: een monitoringsysteem voor het lokaal bestuur in Vlaanderen. die Keure: Brugge. 355 p. Bouckaert Geert & Van Dooren Wouter (2000) Subsidieren van Nederlands-Vlaamse Samenwerking: Hindernissen & oplossingen. Commissie Cultureel Verdrag Vlaanderen Nederland: Brussel. 88 p. CV Wouter van Dooren 3
Chapters in other books Van Dooren, Wouter (2005) Prestatiemeting: een toepassing voor politiekorpsen. in: Ponsaers, Paul, Enhus, Els, Easton, Marleen, Bruggeman, Willy & Collier, Alain. (ed.). 10 miljoen klanten moet je verdienen: Bijdragen tot de evaluatie van politie en justitie. Politeia: Brussel. 29-45. Bouckaert Geert & Van Dooren Wouter (2003) Vraag en aanbod van prestatiemeting en indicatoren in de publieke sector In: Bouckaert Geert, Hondeghem Annie, Janvier Ria, De Rynck Filip & Waege Hans (ed). Jaarboek SBOV 2002: Tussen bestuurskunde en bestuurspraktijk: Bijdragen voor duurzaam besturen in Vlaanderen. die Keure: Brugge. pp. 241-258. Bouckaert Geert, Van Dooren Wouter, Verschuere Bram, Voets Joris & Wayenberg Ellen (2003) De stedelijke organisatie in 2020: Het intern stedelijk management In: De Rynck Filip, e.a. (ed.). De eeuw van de stad: Over stadsrepublieken en rastersteden (Voorstudies). Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap: Brussel. pp. 393-416. Papers presented at international conferences Sterck Miekatrien and Van Dooren Wouter (2004) The use of performance information: taxonomy and international comparison. EGPA Annual Conference. Ljubljana. 1-4 September 2004. Van Dooren, Wouter (2004) What makes Organisations Measure? Hypotheses on the Causes and Conditions for Performance Measurement. EIASM Conference. Oslo. 6-9 October. Van Dooren Wouter (2003) Framing Performance Measurement: Performance measurement as a dependent and an independent variable in public management research. New Public Management Seminar. Amsterdam. 4 september 2003. 15 p. Van Dooren Wouter (2003) Supply and demand of policy indicators: a cross sectoral comparison. Evidence Based Policies and Indicator Systems. Londen. 4-6 juli 2003.17 p. Van Dooren Wouter & Bouckaert Geert (2002) Progress and regress in performance measurement systems. Fifth International Research Symposium on Public Management. Edinburgh, UK. 28 p. Van Dooren Wouter & Van de Walle Steven (2002) "Self promotion by self assessment? A study of the motives underlying the use of the Common Assessment Framework (CAF) in Belgian public agencies" NISPACee Annual Conference. Krakow, april 2002. 17 p. Van Dooren Wouter, Verschuere Bram, Voets Joris & Wayenberg Ellen (2002). Flanders central local relations in (r)evolution: local capacity building as an objective of intergovernmental relations" EGPA Annual Conference. Potsdam. September 2002. 17 p. Research Reports Van de Walle Steven, Sterck Miekatrien, Van Dooren Wouter& Bouckaert Geert. (2004) What you see is not necessarily what you get: Een verkenning van de mogelijkheden en moeilijkheden van internationale vergelijkingen van publieke sectoren op basis van indicatoren (What you see is not necessarily what you get: an exploration of the potential of and the difficulties with international comparisons of public sectors with indicators). Leuven: Instituut voor de Overheid. pp. 61. CV Wouter van Dooren 4
Van Dooren Wouter & Bouckaert Geert (2004) Prestatiemeting in de Vlaamse overheid: vragen voor een informatiebeleid (Performance measurement in Flanders:issues for an information policy) SBOV: Leuven. 85 p. Bouckaert Geert, Van Dooren Wouter & Sterck Miekatrien (2003). Prestaties meten in de Vlaamse overheid: Een verkennende studie. SBOV: Leuven. 115 p. Sterck Miekatrien, Van Dooren Wouter & Bouckaert Geert (2002). De onderzoeksagenda Vooruitgang in prestatiemeetsystemen in het licht van de recente Vlaamse hervormingen SBOV: Leuven. 39 p. Maes Rudolf, Bouckaert Geert & Van Dooren Wouter (2001). De gemeentelijke financiering en de fondsen: een internationaal vergelijkende studie van verdeelsystemen en verdelingscriteria van fondsen voor lokale besturen in het kader van de gemeentelijke inkomstenstructuur Instituut voor de Overheid: Leuven. 76 p. Bouckaert Geert & Van Dooren Wouter (2000). Subsidiestromen van de Vlaamse overheid naar gemeenten en OCMW's. Instituut voor de Overheid: Leuven. 99 p. Professional Experience 2000 Member of the education commission of the Department of political science 2001 Member of the panel for the selection of the good practices to be presented at the First Conference on the Quality of the Public Sector in Belgium 2002 Advise on the development of performance measurement for housing policies in the town of Izegem 2002 Lecture in the city of Turnhout on the city management aspect in future urban policies (Thuis in de Stad -project) 2003 Lecture at the Louvain Institute for Ireland in Europe to mid career civil servants 2003 Training on performance measurement and evaluation of exams for promotion of civil servants of the Flemish Community. 2003 Organisation of a workshop at the Ministry of the Flemish Community on the strengths and weaknesses of performance measurement 2003-2004 Member of the board of the Faculty of Social Sciences 2004 Program co-ordinator and lecturer of the performance measurement training programme of the Public Management Institute 2004 Organisation and lecturing at a workshop titled performance measurement: issues for an information policy (in cooperation with the administration for Planning and Statistics of the Ministry of the Flemish Community) 2004 Organisation of a workshop Performance measurement in a federal context: Flanders and the USA (in cooperation with the administration for Planning and Statistics of the Ministry of the Flemish Community) CV Wouter van Dooren 5
2004 Lecture at the Louvain Institute for Ireland in Europe to mid career civil servants 2004 Coordination of the Ljubljana meeting of the Study Group on Productivity and Quality in the Public Sector (European Group of Public Administration) 2005 Lecture at a the conference on evaluation studies of policing (Ghent) 2005 Two day training on performance measurement in the public sector for Flemish civil servants 2006 Co-chair of the panel determinants of public performance on the Dutch-Flemish conference of political sciences (politicologenetmaal). 2006 Co chair of the Study Group on quality and productivity of the European Group of Public Administration. 2006 Contribution to the Public Governance Committee of the OECD, Paris, 7 th of april 2006 Co-chair of the Workshop on collaborative performance on the conference: A Performing Public Sector: The Second TransAtlantic Dialogue (2TAD), Leuven (Belgium), 1-3 June 2006 2006 Organisation of a workshop outcome measurement in the public sector (with Harry Hatry, Urban Institute) Languages Dutch: English: French: German: Mother tongue Fluent Fair Basic CV Wouter van Dooren 6