Zeger van der Wal

Zeger van der Wal is a globally recognized speaker, researcher, and consultant in the domain of public management. He believes his research, teaching, and consulting activities should constantly feed in to each other and be closely aligned with practitioner interests and needs. His main areas of interest are integrity management, administrative reform, performance management, and work motivation.Zeger book cover

Currently, he is a senior Faculty member at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, based at Asia’s no. 1 university NUS. In 2014, he was awarded the prestigious Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Faculty Research Fellowship as well as the school’s Teaching Excellence Award. In January 2015, he was appointed Assistant Dean of Research and Associate Editor of Public Administration Review, one of the oldest and most reputed journals in the field. In March 2015, NUS bestowed the Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) upon him.

In recent years, he has developed an active portfolio of executive education and consulting assignments. Recent clients include: UNDP, VISA, Toyota, WEF, GIZ, Indian Economic Service, Indian Revenue Service, Hungary National Bank, Central Bank of the Philippines, Monetary Authority Singapore, Sri Lanka Public Service Commission, ANZSOG, LSE Enterprise, Malaysia Anti-Corruption Academy, Home Team Academy Singapore, Ministry of Transport Singapore, and Civil Service College Singapore.

Van der Wal has educated and trained over 3000 graduate students and senior officials across the globe. Teaching, research, and consulting assignments have taken him to Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Laos, Malaysia, Oman, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, The Netherlands, UK, the United Arab Emirates, USA, and Vietnam. He has held visiting fellowships at American University and The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs in the USA, and Australia National University.

He has (co)authored over 100 publications, including books, journal articles, and op-ed pieces in magazines and newspapers. Top-tier journals which have published his work include International Public Management Journal, Public Administration Review, Public Administration, Administration & Society, American Review of Public Administration, Public Management Review, and Journal of Business Ethics. His main publications have been translated into Russian and Chinese.

His latest publication is a textbook for MPA, MBA, and executive education classrooms, titled: The 21st Century Public Manager, published with Palgrave Macmillan in March 2017. This book has received accolades and positive reviews from scholars and senior practitioners across the globe:

Goodreads Amazon.com ManagementBoek Zeger obtained his PhD in Public Administration cum laude (with distinction) from VU University, The Netherlands, in 2008. In that same year, he was awarded the National Postdoc Award from the Netherlands Institute of Government (NIG). He worked at the VU University as Assistant Professor from 2008 to 2012. Before he entered academic life he worked as policy maker for the Municipality of Amsterdam, and later as project assistant for the province of Southern Holland. Zeger received his Master’s in Political Science from the University of Amsterdam in 2001.