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Geert Bouckaert
Class of the Humanities
Membership: Member
Since: 2018
Title: Prof. dr.
Discipline: Public administration
Economics and business
Economics and business
Affiliation: Verbonden aan het Instituut voor de Overheid (KU Leuven)
Promotor-coördinator van het Steunpunt Bestuurlijke Organisatie Vlaanderen
Promotor-coördinator van het Steunpunt Bestuurlijke Organisatie Vlaanderen
Awards:
2024 Life Time Achievement Award from the VVBB Vlaamse Vereniging voor Bestuur en Beleid (Flemish Association for Public Administration)
2023 Riggs Award for Lifetime Achievement in International and Comparative Public Administration, by the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) Section on International and Comparative Administration (SICA)
Anneliese Maier Research Award (Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Germany) (April 2014) (250.000 euro)
ASPA International Public Administration Award (American Society for Public Administration) (at the March 2013 yearly conference in New Orleans)
Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, NAPA (Washington D.C., USA) (November 2011-). NAPA is chartered by the US Congress.
NISPAcee Merit Award (Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe) granted at the yearly NISPAcee conference in Varna, Bulgaria (May 2011)
Donald C. Stone Lecture Award and the Chester Newland Presidential Citation of Merit, by the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) at the yearly conference in Baltimore MD (March 2011)
IRSPM 2007 Routledge Outstanding Achievement Award: The International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM) granted this Award at its yearly conference, in Potsdam, for excellence in academic work, and major contribution to the field of public administration and public management.
Messick Fellow at the School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy, University of Delaware, USA
Alexis de Tocqueville Prize from the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA), Maastricht, The Netherlands (shared with EU Commission Vice President, Lord Kinnock)
Winner of the Annual Award for the best article published in Public Management Review in Volume IV (2002): Bouckaert Geert, Wouter Van Dooren, Bram Verschuere, Joris Voets and Ellen Wayenberg (2002) Trajectories for Modernizing Local Governance, Revisiting the Flanders Case. In Public Management Review, an international journal of research and theory (Routledge) 4 (2002)3:309-342.
Honorary doctorate:
Doctor Honoris Causa from the Université du Québec (ENAP) (Montréal, 10 November 2023)
Professor Honoris Causa at the University College London (UCL) attached to the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (February 2020)
Doctor Honoris Causa from the Bucarest University of Economic Studies (13 April 2018)
Doctor Honoris Causa from the University Babes-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romenia (March 2014)
Doctor Honoris Causa from the Université de Lausanne, Switserland (May 2014)
Doctor Honoris Causa from the National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucarest, Roumania (May 2010)
Doctor Honoris Causa from Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary (formerly Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration) (January 2010)
Doctor Honoris Causa from Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia (September 2008)
Doctor Honoris Causa from Aix-Marseille University, Marseille/Aix-en-Provence, France (June 2008)