BIOGRAPHY
Prof. dr. Ronald Holzhacker is Professor of ‘Comparative Multilevel Governance and Regional Structure’ in the Faculty of Spatial Science, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is broadly interested in questions of governance and planning, sustainable development in cities, climate adaptation, and the interaction between civil society organizations and institutions in political systems. He is founding Director of the Groningen Research Centre for Southeast Asia and ASEAN (SEA ASEAN). He has led an inter-disciplinary team of scholars and 32 PhD researchers over the past decade engaged in theoretically driven comparative research focused on governance, societal impact, and sustainable society in Southeast Asia. His latest edited volume is Holzhacker and Agussalim (eds). Sustainable Development Goals in Southeast Asia and ASEAN: National and Regional Approaches (Leiden: Brill 2019).