Since 2009, Dr. Maurits van Rooijen FRSA has been the Rector Magnificus of Nyenrode Business Universiteit. He is also the CEO of Universiteit Nyenrode BV. In August 2010, Van Rooijen was appointed Professor of Academic Entrepreneurship, Internationalization and Innovation in Higher Education at Nyenrode.
Van Rooijen is an economic historian who obtained his doctorate at Utrecht University on the theme of green urbanization. He has held positions at several universities, including Leiden University, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Victoria University in Melbourne. As a visiting professor, Van Rooijen has been associated with a variety of educational institutions worldwide.
Van Rooijen also holds various international administrative positions. He is, for example, Co-Chairman of the World Association for Co-operative Education (Boston MA, USA), which supports work-integrated learning. Furthermore, he is President of the Compostela Group of Universities (Santiago de Compostela, Spain), an association that stimulates cooperation and dialogue in the field of higher education. Van Rooijen is also Vice President of the London-based European Access Network, that encourages under-represented groups to participate in higher education, and Chairman of the Managing Board of the Euro-Mediterranean University in Slovenia, an initiative of the European Parliament.
Prior to his position at Nyenrode, from 1993, he was responsible for expanding the international position of the University of Westminster in London, from 2003 onwards as Executive Vice-President for International and Institutional Development. Under his auspices, the University of Westminster has grown to become one of the UK's leading universities in terms of internationalization.
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