Maarten Hajer

Maarten A. Hajer (1962) is Distinguished Professor Urban Futures and Director of the Urban Futures Studio. Previously Hajer was professor of Public Policy at the University of Amsterdam (1998-2015) and Director-General of the PBL - Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (2008-2015). He is the author of many scholarly books, including The Politics of Environmental Discourse (Oxford UP, 1995) and Authoritative Governance - Policy-making in the Age of Mediatization (Oxford UP, 2009). Hajer is also well known as curator and government advisor. In 2018 Hajer was the curator of an exhibition on the future of the Netherlands, Places of Hope, part of Leeuwarden/Fryslân Culturele Hoofdstad 2018.

Email: m.a.hajer@uu.nl