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Deliberative democracy networker
I'm the founder and executive director of the Federation for Innovation in Democracy Europe (FIDE – Europe), an independent and non-commercial network of practitioners in democratic innovation. FIDE wants to provide expertise on deliberative processes to achieve high-quality designs, better standards and an embedding of democratic innovations as a central feature in contemporary policy-making.
I was a key contributor to the landmark Ostbelgien Model, the Assemblée Citoyenne of the city of Paris and the first deliberative process in Mostar (BiH) to name but a few.
I previously worked as a senior researcher in political science at KU Leuven (Belgium) and the University of Antwerp (Belgium), publishing in major international journals on political participation, citizenship, elections, and the information processing of elite politicians. I lectured also at Université St-Louis (Bruxelles), Université Catholique de Lille (France) and was a visiting researcher at Oxford University (UK). He is still a guest professor at the KU Leuven.
I served as an expert for the European Court of Auditors, the OECD, the European Commission, the Council of Europe, the OSCE, and numerous local, regional and national governments.
I'm a board member of the Dutch citizen organization Bureau Burgerberaad, FIDE North-America and is one of the six advisors to the Competence Centre on Participatory and Deliberative Democracy of the European Commission.
