Martin de Jong is Ajunct Professor of Institute for Gloabl Public Policy at Fudan University, Scientific Director of the Erasmus Initiative 'Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity' and Professor at both Rotterdam School of Management and Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam. He spent 25 years of his working life at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of Delft University of Technology and climbed the ranks there from PhD student to Antoni van Leeuwenhoek research professor in ‘urban and infrastructure development in China’. In this period he has also worked or been a visiting scholar at University of Amsterdam, George Mason University, Aalto University, Harbin Institute of Technology and Dalian University of Technology.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Urban and infrastructure development, City branding, Inclusive prosperity, Cross-national institutional comparison, Public policy and administration, Politics and policy in China, Cross-cultural management, Economic philosophy & evolutionary theory

EDUCATION

• Bachelor and Master degree in Public Administration from Erasmus University Rotterdam and Leiden University (joint programme).

• PhD degree in systems Engineering and Policy Analysis, Delft University of Technology.

• Erasmus exchange to Ecole des Affaires Publiques et Internationales, Universite Catholique de Louvain, LLN.

Academic Papers

• Ma Wenting, Martin de Jong, Mark de Bruijne and Rui Mu (2020). Mix and Match: Configuring different types of policy instruments to develop successful Low Carbon Cities in China, forthcoming in Journal of Cleaner Production.

• Jong, Martin de, Thomas Hoppe and Negar Noori (2019): City branding, sustainable urbanization and the rentier state; How do Qatar, Abu Dhabi and Dubai respond to the era of post oil and global warming?, in Energies, Volume 12, Issue 9, Pages 1657.

• Jong, Martin de (2019): From eco-civilization to city branding; a neo-Marxist perspective of sustainable urban development in China, in Sustainability, Volume 11, Issue 20, pages 5608.

• Mu Rui, Martin de Jong and Joop Koppenjan (2019): Assessing and explaining interagency collaboration performance: a comparative case study of local governments in China, in: Public Management Review, Volume 21, 2019 - Issue 4, Pages 581-605

• Lu Haiyan and Martin de Jong (2019): Evolution of city branding 2000-2017 in the PRD, in Cities, Volume 89, June 2019, Pages 154-166

• Jong, Martin de, Yawei Chen, Simon Joss, Haiyan Lu, Miaoxi Zhao, Qihui Yang and Chaoning Zhang (2018): City branding in three Chinese mega-city regions, in Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 179, 1 April 2018, Pages 527-543

• Lu, Haiyan, Martin de Jong and Ernst ten Heuvelhof (2018): Explaining the variety in smart eco city development in China; What policy network theory can teach us about overcoming barriers in implementation?, in JCLP, Volume 196, 20 September 2018, Pages 135-149

• Mu, Rui and Martin de Jong (2018): The Psychology of Local Officials: Explaining Strategic Behavior in the Chinese Target Responsibility System, in Journal of Chinese Governance, Volume 3, 2018 - Issue 2, Pages 243-260

• Ma Xin, Martin de Jong and Harry den Hartog (2018): An eco-island under the smoke of Shanghai; Assessing China’s policy to turn Chongming into a world-class example of sustainable urbanization, in Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 172, 20 January 2018, Pages 872-886

• Koppenjan, Joop and Martin de Jong (2018): The introduction of public–private partnerships in the Netherlands as a case of institutional bricolage: The evolution of an Anglo-Saxon transplant in a Rhineland context, in Public Administration, Volume 96, Issue1,March 2018, Pages 171-184.

Books and Journal Special Issues

• Anttiroiko, Ari-Veikko and Martin de Jong (2020): The Inclusive City: The Theory and Practice of Creating Shared Urban Prosperity, Pivot series, Palgrave Macmillan.

• Heuvelhof, Ernst ten, Martin de Jong, Mirjam Kars and Helen Stout (2009): Strategic behaviour in network industries; A Multi-disciplinary approach, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.

• De Jong, Martin, Konstantinos Lalenis & Virginie Mamadouh (eds) (2002), The Theory and Practice of Institutional Transplantation; Experiences with the Transfer of Policy Institutions, Geo Journal Library, Kluwer Academic Publishers, December 2002.

Editorial board member of:

• Journal of Urban Technology

• Sustainability