Arjen Boin is Professor of Public Institutions and Governance at the Institute of Political Science, Leiden University. Before he moved to Leiden, he was a professor of public governance and crisis management at the Utrecht School of Governance and associate professor at the Public Administration Institute, Louisiana State University.
Arjen Boin serves on the Institute Board as Director Strategy and Organisation.
Arjen Boin has published widely on topics of crisis and disaster management, leadership, institutional design and organizational issues. His most recent books include Guardians of Public Value, Understanding the Creeping Crisis and Governing the Pandemic (all three were published in 2021 by Palgrave and can be downloaded for free).
His book Managing Hurricane Katrina (Louisiana State University Press, 2019) investigates the lessons that should be learned from this mega-disaster. His other books include The Politics of Crisis Management (Cambridge University Press, winner of APSA’s Herbert A. Simon book award), Governing after Crisis (Cambridge UP, 2008), Crisis Management: A Three Volume Set of Essential Readings (Sage, 2008), Designing Resilience (Pittsburgh UP, 2010), MegaCrises (Charles C Thomas, 2012) and The EU as Crisis Manager: Patterns and Prospects (Cambridge UP, 2013).
Arjen Boin is the previous editor of Public Administration (Wiley), a premier journal in the field, and serves on the editorial board of the following journals: Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management (Wiley), Risks, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy (Wiley), and International Journal of Emergency Management (Inderscience).
He is also a managing partner at Crisisplan BV and a founding member of the European Societal Security Research Group.
PhD supervision
Arjen Boin is available to supervise PhD students and invites PhD research proposals in the areas of:
- Crisis management
- Institutional crises
- Institutional resilience/erosion
See for more information on PhD positions:
› Institute of Political Science: PhD
An overview of Dutch politics and Political Science in the Netherlands: the Oxford Handbook of Dutch Politics
Gravitation funding for five projects with Leiden researchers
Healthy Society Event: lots of inspiration exchanged about societal wellbeing and social sciences
Why the western world was too late to respond to Covid
‘The Netherlands thought it was prepared for a pandemic, but was in for a surprise’
