Prof. dr. Marleen Brans

Period: 1983 - 1988: Licentiate Political Science
University/College: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Dissertation: A city state for Brussels?
grade: Great distinction

Period: 1988 - 1989: Master of Politics with special reference to policy processes in industrial societies
University/College: University of Hull, U.K.)
Dissertation: Theories of local government reorganization: the case of Belgium
Grade: first class honours with distinction

Date: 1999: Doctor in Political and Social Sciences
University: European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Thesis: Public Office – Private Rewards. The dynamics of material reward system for legislators. A comparative study of material reward systems for legislative office in Belgium and the Netherlands
Promotor: Professor dr. Jean Blondel

01 01 1999 - 30 09 1999: Research Officer Public Management Institute,

01 10 1999-: Post-doctoral fellow of the Flemish Foundation for Scientific Research and part-time lecturer at the Public Management Institute, KU Leuven

At the Public Management Institute M. Brans is responsible for training programmes on policy analysis and policy formulation for the Flemish Government and Flemish local governments.

She teaches several courses at the Department of Political Sciences:
- Policy analysis
- Special issues in public admistration: governance and steering
- Seminar on comparative public administration

She is engaged in several international research networks: with Tilburg University on the comparative quality of policy-making and democracy in Belgium and the Netherlands, and with B. Rockman (University of Pittsburg) on the relationship between the professionalised civil service and politicians.

In past and present projects she has collaborated with leading public administrationists and policy specialists such as B.G. Peters, C.C.Hood, J. Pierre, G. Majone, E.C. Page and the late V. Wright.

Marleen Brans co-ordinates and/or executes the following ongoing projects:

• The organisation and management of policy formulation in federal Belgium (09/2000-08/2001)
• Policy transfer: systematic lesson-drawing from policy-making in other jurisdictions (09/2001-08/2002)
• Strategic planning in Flanders (08/1999 – 12/1999)

She also contributed to the project 'Draft Flemish Local Government Decree' (10/1998-03/2001)