I'm an Assistant Professor at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视鈥檚 School of Governance, where my research explores public鈥損rivate interactions in global governance, good governance, and the EU鈥檚 role as a global actor. My work has a strong empirical focus on sport governance, with broader relevance to integrity, accountability, and the role of non-state actors in providing public goods.
My research has been published in journals such as Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of European Integration, Public Administration, Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, European Security, and Public Management Review. I'm the author of The EU in International Sports Governance (Palgrave) and co-editor of Good Governance in Sport: Critical Reflections (Routledge).
Beyond academia, I actively engage with policy and practice. I鈥檝e served as President of the Integrity Commission of the Belgian Football Association, advised the Council of Europe, UNESCO, and the European Commission, and contributed to the IPACS Task Force on good governance in sport.
I developed several internationally used benchmarking tools for assessing good governance in sport organizations, including the Sports Governance Observer, National Sports Governance Observer, and National Anti-Doping Governance Observer. I also created a code and indicators of good governance in sport for the Flemish Government.