Education
PhD, Leiden University, 1998

Interests
Teaching Interest: Organization Theory, Institutional Design, Crisis Management, Public Leadership

Research Interest: Crisis and Disaster Management, Leadership, Resilience, Public Institutions, Correctional Systems

Employed by LSU since
8/15/2007


Biographical Summary
Arjen Boin received his Ph.D. from Leiden University, The Netherlands where he taught at the Department of Public Administration before moving to LSU. He was the director of the Leiden University Crisis Research Center, a founding director of Crisisplan (an international crisis consultancy based in the Netherlands) and the founding director of the Stephenson Disaster Management Institute. Dr. Boin has published widely on topics of crisis and disaster management, leadership, institutional design and correctional administration. His most recent books are The Politics of Crisis Management (Cambridge University Press, winner of APSA’s Herbert A. Simon book award), Governing after Crisis (Cambridge UP, 2008), and Crisis Management: A Three Volume Set of Essential Readings (Sage, 2008). Dr. Boin serves on the editorial board of Risk Management (Palgrave) and the Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management (Blackwell). He is the American editor for Public Administration, a premier journal in the field.