About Dr. Maas

Born in the Netherlands, Dr. Maas is a Dutch citizen. His initial educational and early professional career took place in Holland. Following high school, he went on to study at the University of Amsterdam, from which he holds the degree of Master of Arts in Sociology.

Towards the end of this study, he began working as a research assistant with the Department of Public Administration of Leiden University. Upon receiving his M.A., he was promoted to adjunct research faculty there. Concurrently, he started work as an adjunct teaching faculty with the Department of Sociology of the University of Amsterdam.

A year later, with sponsorship of the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, Maas moved to the United States to get involved with George Mason University's newly established doctoral program in Public Policy and to pursue a Ph.D. in this field. Maas would be employed by GMU and work in Fairfax, Virginia, for the better part of the 1990s.

He worked two years as a research associate with The Institute of Public Policy and was then 'loaned out' to the Fairfax Electronic Commerce Resource Center, where he worked as a marketing research analyst for a year. He subsequently returned to The Institute of Public Policy to work as a research fellow for two years. During the latter of those years, he was also an instructor with the Department of Public and International Affairs.

Next, the Mason Enterprise Center recruited him for GMU's Telework & Training Centers. There, he worked as a senior program support technician, organizing the operations and (financial) administration of three newly established, US federal government sponsored telework centers operated by GMU. Within three years, he became the Centers' business manager, a position which he held until his return to his home country in late 2001.

Back in the Netherlands, Maas took up the position of senior policy advisor with the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, where he worked until January of 2003. While specializing in issues related to public and private returns to education, he also devoted much time to benchmarking the quality of teaching and research at Dutch universities and to implementing that benchmarking tool on the Ministerial intranet.

Towards the summer of 2003, Maas started out as an independent consultant. As such, he has completed projects for commercial and not-for-profit clients. His continued involvement with the Randstad Noord regional office of the Royal Dutch Association for Small and Medium Enterprise (MKB-Nederland) relates to spatial planning and regional economic development policies and public-private partnerships for crime control, education and innovation.

In the fall of 2003, Maas defended his thesis at GMU's School of Public Policy. The degree of Doctor in Public Policy was conferred in January of 2004. Maas is preparing several publications based on his doctoral research. He is listed in the Dutch Research Database (NOD) maintained by the Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services (NIWI) for the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

In 2005 and 2006, Maas taught a range of management courses with the School of Economics of InHolland University Haarlem. Further, he guided students through their interships and master's theses. As acting director of the Center for Entrepreneurship Development envision for this location, he played a role in the Haarlem SME Counter, knowledge circulation and innovation projects.

Maas is currently engaged as a researcher with the Legislation & Administration of Justice division (RR&R) of the Research and Documentation Centre (WODC), an international criminal justice knowledge centre for the development and evaluation of justice policy as set by the Netherlands Ministry of Justice.

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