Jaap is Senior Lecturer in Water and Environmental Policy at the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education. His main research interests revolve around the department’s research line Policy and Organizations. He is also teaching on IHE Delft's courses on Strategic Planning and Futuring, Finance and Implementation, and Water Policy.

research interest

• Water and environmental planning and implementation, and more specifically policy mobility, policy learning, policy-implementation practices, and implementation feasibility in planning in the water sector.