Bio
Leon Hermans is an Associate Professor in Policy Analysis at Delft University of Technology and at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education.
At TU Delft he has taught courses on actor and strategy models and policy analysis for multi-actor systems at both graduate and undergraduate level. At IHE Delft, Leon teaches courses and provides trainings on water policy analysis, advanced stakeholder analysis, policy evaluation, impact assessment and institutional analysis. As part of teaching and course development, Leon has co-authored textbooks on policy analysis of multi-actor systems, and on actor and strategy models.
Together with Scott Cunningham, Mark de Reuver and Jos Timmermans, authored the book: "Actor & Strategy Models: Practical Applications and Step-wise Approaches", published by John Wiley & Sons in 2018.
Leon’s research interests are the use of actor and strategy models to support more adaptive and transformative policy pathways, with a meaningful role for monitoring and evaluation to support joint learning among a range of actors in the water sector. In recent years he has been co-leading research on water management in urbanizing deltas in India, Bangladesh, Vietnam and the Netherlands. Currently he is co-leading research on transformative pathways planning in a larger set of countries and regions across the world.
Earlier in his career, Leon worked for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) at the Water Resources Management and Development Service. Leon obtained his degrees in policy analysis from TU Delft.
research interest
- Policy analysis
- Stakeholder analysis
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Participatory approaches
- Adaptive governance
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position
Associate Professor in Policy Analysis at Delft University of Technology and at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
degrees
PhD, Policy Analysis, Delft University of Technology
MSc, Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis and Management, Delft University of Technology
faculty
Publications
Selected publications:
- Hermans, Leon M., Marjolijn Haasnoot, Judith ter Maat, Jan H. Kwakkel. (2017). Designing monitoring arrangements for collaborative learning about adaptation pathways. Environmental Science & Policy 69: 29-38.
- Phi, Ho Long, Leon M. Hermans, Wim J.A.M. Douven, Gerardo E. van Halsema, Malik Fida Khan (2015). A Framework to Assess Plan Implementation Maturity with an Application to Flood Management in Vietnam. Water International 40(7): 984-1003.
- Hermans, L.M., S.W. Cunningham, J.H. Slinger (2014). The usefulness of game theory as a method for policy evaluation. Evaluation 20(1): 10 – 25.
- Hermans, L.M., A.C. Naber, B. Enserink (2012). An approach to design long-term monitoring and evaluation frameworks in multi-actor systems - a case in water management. Evaluation and Program Planning 35 (4): 427 – 438
- Enserink, Bert, Leon Hermans, Jan Kwakkel, Wil Thissen, Joop Koppenjan, Pieter Bots. (2010). Policy Analysis of Multi-Actor Systems. Boom|Lemma, The Hague, 175 pp.
