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Biography

Vincent Homburg is Associate Professor in Public Administration at ÃÀÅ®¸£ÀûµçÓ°ÔºÎçÒ¹ and ERA Chair "e-Governance and Digital Public Services" at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He has a Master’s degree from Twente University (Public Administration) and a PhD degree from Groningen University (Organisation Studies / Information Systems). Currently, his research focuses on e-government (both as a national, Dutch phenomenon, as well as in comparative research) and teaches public management theory, methodology and public information systems courses at bachelor, Master and postinitial Master levels. Vincent also actively contributes to the public management and information systems literatures. He has published more than sixty peer-reviewed articles and chapters, and co-edited The Information Ecology of E-Government (IOS Press, with Professor Victor Bekkers) and New Public Management in Europe, Adaptation and Alternatives (Palgrave MacMillan, with Christopher Pollitt and Sandra van Thiel). Vincent also authored Understanding E-Government: Information Systems in Public Administration (Routledge Taylor & Francis).  Vincent co-supervised and is still co-supervises several PhD students working on a variety of topics and employing diverse methodologies. In 2010 he received the best PhD supervisor award by the Netherlands Institute of Government’s (NIG).