Sandra van Thiel (1968) is professor of Public Management at the Department of Public Administration and Sociology of Erasmus University Rotterdam. She obtained her master's degree at the Catholic University Nijmegen (with honours, 1992) and her PhD degree at the University of Utrecht (2000). She worked at Erasmus University Rotterdam (1998-2011), Radboud University Nijmegen (2012-2023), and as of May 2020 again in Rotterdam. She was executive director of the Netherlands Institute of Government (2004-2009), research coordinator of the parliamentary inquiry into privatization and agencification for the Dutch Senate (2011-2012), vice dean of the Nijmegen School of Management (2015-2020), and editor in chief of the International Journal of Public Sector Management IJPSM (2015-2023). In 2023 she was appointed as team lead for the team Organization & Management, at DPAS/EUR. Sandra is a member of the KHMW and the KNAW.