Maarten Blokland

Associate Professor of Water Services Management



M.W. Blokland, MSc
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Maarten Blokland is Associate Professor in Water Services Management and Head a.i. of the Department of Management and Institutions.

He has worked in the water supply and sanitation sector since 1975, and worked in more than 40 developing and newly industrialized countries.

He worked 5 years with a water utility and 4 years with a consulting engineering firm prior to joining the Institute in 1984.

His present work is on the management of water utilities with a focus on (pro-poor) benchmarking, participatory project development, and capacity development for water services providers.

Maarten Blokland was Head of the Sanitary Engineering Department (1996-2000), Vice-Rector Education (2000-2003), Acting Director IHE (2003-2004). From 2004 till 2007 he was Deputy Director of UNESCO-IHE.

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