BIOGRAPHY

Prof Dr Louis Meuleman is an academic, practitioner and trainer on sustainability governance, metagovernance and policy coherence and integration. He is visiting professor public governance at KU Leuven University (Belgium); member of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration (CEPA); vice chair of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency (EEA); and member of the Global Council on SDG 17 (UAE).

The first ten years of his 40 years’ public administration experience he worked at subnational level as project leader and head of unit at two Provinces in the Netherlands, on environmental planning and soil and groundwater protection. The next twenty years were on environmental and spatial planning at national level. In that period, he was among others head of unit Rural Areas and director of the Dutch science-policy advisory council RMNO. The last ten years he was policy coordinator at DG Environment of the European Commission in Brussels.

He has a PhD in public administration (Public Management and the Metagovernance of Hierarchies, Networks and Markets, Springer, 2008) and an MSc in environmental biology. His latest book is Metagovernance for Sustainability (Routledge, 2018).

As co-founder and director of the think tank Public Strategy for Sustainable Development (ps4sd), he advises among others national governments, the European Commission, UN bodies and the OECD on SDG implementation challenges. Topics include besides sustainability (meta)governance: stakeholder involvement; making regulatory impact assessment sustainable; policy coherence for sustainable development (PCSD); and multilevel governance (see new book chapter: Meuleman, L. 2023. A metagovernance approach to multilevel governance and vertical coordination for the SDGs).
Contact: louismeuleman@ps4sd.eu and www.ps4sd.eu.