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Verheijen, Tony
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Fields of Specialization
public sector management; governance; civil service law; public service delivery
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Europe and CIS Region, The World Bank
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Last updated
January 31, 2023
Biography
Tony Verheijen has worked for the last 25 years on public management and institutional reforms in Europe and Central Asia, Africa, and South Asia, as a development practitioner and scholar. He contributed to the process of European Integration of Central and East European states in the 1990s and 2000s, by providing advice and support to the management of their EU accession process and to the internal transformation of their institutional systems. He also supported governments in East and Central Africa on decentralization and service delivery reforms, focusing, in particular, on post conflict and transition countries. Apart from his work as a development practitioner, Tony Verheijen has held various academic and teaching positions in the Netherlands, Ireland, Belgium and Poland. He has published widely on public management, constitutionalism, decentralization and European Integration.