Wieke Pot is Associate Professor of long-term governance for water and climate change at the Public Administration and Policy Group at Wageningen University and a (crown appointed) member of the Netherlands Scientific Council for Climate Change (Wetenschappelijke Klimaatraad, WKR).
As public administration scholar, she is specialized into water and climate governance (cum laude MSc. Leiden University), Ph.D. Wageningen University & Research). Before her academic career, Wieke worked for 6 years in the private sector and had project management, consultancy, and (interim) management roles at a range of public and private sector organizations (a.o. Boer & Croon, AkzoNobel).
In her work, Wieke aims to increase understanding of what enables public organizations to become more long-term oriented and forward-looking to be able to contribute to sustainable and resilient societies. She is work package leader for the NWA-ORC ‘RED&BLUE’ project on dealing with climate risks for a resilient infrastructure and real estate and the NWO-KiC WaterScape project on transformations of water governance systems to ensure water availability and resilience against climate extremes. She is also part of the NL2120 project on upscaling nature-based solutions, supervising a PhD candidate, and is leading a research project on ‘strengthening the rights and interests of future generations within present-day policy making’.
Wieke chairs a colloquium on ‘time-sensitive and robust governance’ connected to the Netherlands Institute of Governance (NIG) and is part of the NIG advisory council. Besides making an impact through teaching students, Wieke is strongly committed to engaging closely with practitioners. She seeks close collaboration with practitioners in research consortia, such as with municipalities, the Dutch Delta program, water authorities and real estate actors.
To help senior public executives deal with long-term policy problems, she is co-dean for the Netherlands School of Public Administration for which she co-developed and teaches a seven-day practitioner-course about dealing with long-term policy problems. She holds policy advisory roles to help improve Dutch water and climate policies and accelerate transitions, being a member of the WKR and Expertise Network of the Delta program on freshwater.
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