Dr. C. (Cor) J. van Montfort

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1 Dr. C. (Cor) J. van Montfort Short Biography Dr. C. (Cor) J. van Montfort (1961) studied political science and wrote at the Utrecht University his dissertation about civil society and institutional reform (1996). At the moment he is program manager at the Netherlands Court of Audit, and associate professor at Tilburg University in The Netherlands. In his research work his focus is on public private partnerships and public entrepreneurship, and on the future of the national systems of health care, pension provision and housing. Recently he started for the next three years a project about sustainable cities and public private partnerships. He chaired national commissions on codes of good governance in child care and higher education. From he was head of the sections Public private sector and Education, Culture and Science at the Netherlands Court of Audit. From 2012 to 2014 he was visiting fellow at the Scientific Council for Government Policy ( and responsible for advisory projects on cross overs between the systems of housing, care and pension provision and checks and balances in the semi public domain. In the past years he did several research projects and advisory projects on request of the Dutch government (i.c. department of internal affairs, department of education) and the Dutch parliament (on the topics of social security and social housing) Contact: c.j.vanmontfort@tilburguniversity.edu c.vanmontfort@rekenkamer.nl Website: linkedin Current positions

2 - Project manager and program manager at the Netherlands Court of Audit ( - Associate professor good governance and public-private arrangements at Tilburg University, The Netherlands ( Recent and current research topics Key words Objects: Public-private partnerships, hybrid organizations, good governance, urban governance, local public service delivery, public value management Fields: drinking water and wastewater management, pensions systems, education, public real estate, local elderly care provision, sustainable urban development Themes and publications - The future of the national systems of health care, pension provision and housing (WRR, Tilburg University) - Systems of checks and balances in public organizations (WRR) - Public private partnerships and public entrepreneurship (Tilburg University) - Urban public-private water governance (Tilburg University) - Public funding and spending in the sector of secondary education (Court of Audit) - Program manager risks in public real estate management (Court of Audit) Other experience (selection) Chair of national commission on code of good governance in higher education 2009 Visiting fellow Australian National University, political science program Member of the monitor commission on good governance in social housing

3 Chair of national commission on code of good governance in child care Head of the sections PPP and Education, Culture and Science at the Netherlands Court of Audit Member of the advisory board of the project Developments in social security, AIAS/University of Amsterdam Member of the advisory board of the project Public values in social security, SIG/Groningen University Member of the supervisory boeard of a Dutch social housing corporation, den Bosch Member of the editorial board of the Dutch Journal of Public Administration (Bestuurskunde) Member/vice chair of the local Audit Office of the city of Utrecht Publications and papers in English, French and Chinese Articles and bookchapters FT= full text available, see section selectie publicaties en papers (volledige teksten) - FT (with F.Hoek en C. Vermeer) Enhancing public accountability, in: OECD Journal of budgeting, volume 5, no. 2, 2005, p La gouvernance publique aux Pays-Bas (met M. van Twist), in: Annuaire 2006 des collectivités locales la gouvernance territorale, G.Marcou et H. Wollmann (eds.), CNRS editions, Paris, 2006, p FT (met M. Oude Vrielink) Codes of ethics and codes of practice, in: Encyclopedia of civil society, onder redactie van Regina List e.a., Springer Verlag, december 2009, p Codes as hybrid regulation (met M. Oude Vrielink en M. Bokhorst), in: Handbook on the politics of Regulation, Dadvid Levi-Faur (ed.), Edwar Elgar: Cheltenham, UK, chapter 35, p , FT (with A. Michels), Partnerships as a contribution to urban governance in India and China, in: Journal of US China public administration, January 2013, vol. 10, no. 1, FT (with I. Boers, F. Hoek and J. Wieles), Public-private partnerships: international audit findings, in Handbook of PPP, P. de Vries e.a., The

4 Routledge Companion to public-private partnerships, Routledge, 2013, p (with Zeger van de Wal, Gjalt de Graaf en James Perry), Returning to our roots: good governance evolves to good governance, symposium editorial, guest editors good governance symposium, Public Administration Review, jan-feb FT Dooren, W. van, A. Michels en C. van Montfort, The sound of silence: silent ideologies in public services. In: Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Mahmud A. Shareef, Sanjay Pandey and Vinod Kumar (eds.) Public administration reformation: market demand from public organizations, New York: Routledge, FT (with Li Sun), Stability and change: the public-private mix in social welfare provision in the Netherlands and its relevance for China, in: Social Security Studies, 2014, nr. 20, p (in Chinese). - FT (with A. Michels & A. Frankowski), Governance models and partnerships in the urban water sector. A framework for analysis and evaluation, Tilburg/Utrecht, (with A. Michels), Urban governance and partnerships in Indian and Chinese cities. Examples from Delhi, Beijing and Shanghai, in: Leon van den Dool, Frank Hendriks, Alberto Gianoli and Linze Schaap (eds.), Good urban governance, Springer, (accepted, to be published spring 2015) Papers - 'Civil society and institutional reform. Dutch experiences', ECPR, ECPR, Leiden, april (with Ank Michels) 'Deliberation, democracy and the policy process', paper PATnet conference 2001, Leiden - The Netherlands Court of Audit and good governance, European Evaluation Society (EES), Berlijn, Public-private arrangements, ESTR/EMES conference Concepts of the third sector, april 2005, Parijs - Making the convergence between public and private succeed, Transatlantic dialogue, A performing public sector, Leuven, june 1-3, Good governance and stakeholder involvement, UK Evaluation Society, November 2007, Leeds - (with M. van Twist and others), Blurring boundaries in the public domain, NIG-conference, November. 2007, Tilburg

5 - FT Good governance and public private arrangements, Paper prepared for the conference 'Governing good and governing well': The first global dialogue on ethical and effective governance, may 2009, Amsterdam - (with J. Wieles, Cl. Noort-Verhoeff and M-A van de Griek), Where does all the money go? Changes in financial relationships between Dutch government and private sector partners, paper prepared for the EGPA conference, third sector group, 2-5 september 2009, Malta - Good governance and public private arrangements, ECPR joint sessions, maart 2010, Münster - (with M. Oude Vrielink and M. Bokhorst) Codes as hybrid regulation, paper prepared for the third biennal conference of the ECPR Standing group on regulatory governance, june 17-19, 2010 Dublin - (with Ph. Karré) Public value management and public entrepreneurship. Theoretical and empirical reflections on the concept of public value management, paper prepared for the EGPA conference, Toulouse, september 8-10, 2010 also presented at NIG conference, Maastricht, November 25-26, The necessity to safeguard public interests, proceedings conference Safeguarding the public interests (Groningen, 2009), in: Social security as a public interest, G. Vonk and A. Tollenaar (red.), Intersentia, Antwerp, Oxford, Portland, 2010, p (with A.M.B. Michels) State, market and civil society. Partnerships and good governance in India and China, NIG-conferentie 2011, Rotterdam, 1-2 december (with Philip Karré) Credibility under pressure. On the credibility gap of hybrid organizations, paper presented at the IRSPM conference in Rome, april FT (with Ank Michels) The governance of public private partnerships: institutional voids in India and China, IIAS conference Institutional voids during state-rescaling, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, FT (with Li Sun) Stability by Change. The changing public-private mix in social welfare provision in China and the Netherlands, JSTP seminar, The future of work, care and welfare in Europe and China, Beijing, September (with D. van Est) Public-private partnerships: international and national audit findings of the Netherlands Court of Audit, paper prepared for the conference Global challenges in PPP: cross-sectoral and cross-disciplinary solutions?, Antwerp, 6-7 november 2013.