dr. WD (Wieke) Pot

Dr. Wieke Pot is Associate Professor of long-term governance for water and climate change at the Public Administration and Policy Group at Wageningen University and member of the Netherlands Scientific Climate Council (Wetenschappelijke Klimaatraad). She graduated in public administration (cum laude MSc. Leiden University) and did her PhD about forward-looking investments in water infrastructure at Wageningen University & Research.

Before her academic career, Wieke worked for 6 years in the private sector and had project management, consultancy, and (interim) management roles at a range of public and private sector organizations (a.o. Boer & Croon, AkzoNobel). In her work, Wieke aims to increase understanding of what enables governmental organizations to become more long-term oriented and forward-looking to be able to contribute to sustainable and resilient societies. She is work package leader for three granted projects: the JPI Urban Europe project ‘CREATE’ about enhancing local governmental capabilities for a circular built environment, the NWA-ORC ‘RED&BLUE’ project on dealing with climate risks for a resilient infrastructure and real estate and the NWO-KiC WaterScape project on transformations of water management and governance systems to ensure water quality, fresh water availability and resilience against extreme weather events. She is also part of the NL2120 Groeifonds project on upscaling nature-based solutions, supervising a PhD candidate, and has initiated a research project on ‘strengthening the rights and interests of future generations within present-day policy making’. Wieke leads a colloquium on ‘time-sensitive and robust governance’ connected to the Netherlands Institute of Governance (NIG) and is part of the NIG advisory council. She is editorial board member of the Dutch journal Water Governance and publishes in high-ranking interdisciplinary and public administration journals. Besides making an impact through teaching students, Wieke is strongly committed to engaging closely with practitioners. She seeks close collaboration with practitioners in research consortia, such as with municipalities, the Dutch Delta program, water authorities and real estate actors. To help senior public executives deal with long-term policy problems, she is guest lecturer and co-dean for the Netherlands School of Public Administration for which she co-developed and teaches a seven-day practitioner-course about dealing with long-term policy problems. She is active in policy advisory roles to help improve Dutch water and climate policies and accelerate transitions, being a member of the WKR and Expertise Network of the Delta program on freshwater.

Contact: wieke.pot@wur.nl

Research projects:

WaterScape: https://waterscape.sites.uu.nl/

NL2120: https://www.nl2120.nl/

Red & Blue: https://redblueclimate.nl/

NGI colloquium on robust and time sensitive governance: https://www.nigovernance.nl/robust-and-time-sensitive-governance/ 

Dissertation: https://edepot.wur.nl/520563

Publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Wieke-Pot?ev=hdr_xprf

• Tijdschrift Water Governance (1-1-2018/31-12-2099)
  
• Journal of International Water governance (1-1-2022/31-12-2099)
  new journal, not much is happening yet
• Wetenschappelijke Klimaatraad (15-4-2023/4-11-2026)
  Raadsliid voor de Wetenschappelijke Klimaatraad