Science, Environment and Development Group

Dr. Marleen van de Kerkhof
Vrije Universiteit - Institute for Environmental Studies
Boelelaan 1087
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: (31) 20-4449531
Fax: (31) 20-4449553
Email: marleen.van.de.kerkhof@ivm.falw.vu.nl
Group affiliation: Post-doctoral Research Fellow (2004)

Marleen van de Kerkhof is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Harvard’s Center for International Development (CID). Her work is on issues of stakeholder analysis, participatory methods, and interactive backcasting in the field of energy and climate, water management, and transition processes. She received her master's degree in Environmental Policy Sciences from the University of Nijmegen (1998) and her PhD from the Institute for Environmental Studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2004). Her thesis is on stakeholder participation methodology and evaluates an Integrated Assessment project on strategies for long-term climate policy in the Netherlands (the COOL project). She attended the international EFIEA summer school Puzzle Solving for Policy: Tools and Methods for IA at Maastricht University in 1999 and participated in the Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in 2000. In 2003-2004, she worked on the EU project River Dialogue co-organizing and moderating focus groups and a citizens' jury on water management issues. In 2004 she started a post-doctoral project financed by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research focusing on governance strategies for the transition towards a hydrogen economy in the Netherlands.