Maurits van Rooijen

Maurits van Rooijen
Maurits van Rooijen
Born	1956 (age 60–61) Breda, Netherlands
Nationality	Dutch
Alma mater	Utrecht University
Occupation	Social and economic historian Academic administrator
Employer	Global University Systems

Maurits van Rooijen FRSA (Breda, 1956) is a Dutch Social and Economic Historian with a doctorate in Geography from Utrecht University. His research has been about green urbanisation and re-interpreting the garden city principles. In recent publications, with Ad de Rooij, he has promoted the concept of the, Global Knowledge City arguing that in the 21st century besides the need to blend urbanisation with agriculture and manufacturing (the original garden city mission), global knowledge innovation should be at the core of sustainable urbanisation.

In 2013 he was awarded the prize for EAIE Constance Meldrum Award for Vision & Leadership Since 2012, he has been the CEO & Rector of the London School of Business and Finance (LSBF)

Born in Breda, Netherlands in 1956, Maurits van Rooijen attended the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwe lyceum (gymnasium beta) and studied at Utrecht University. In parallel to his postgraduate in Social and Economic History degree, he also did the postgraduate programme in Sociology for Built Environment. He was lecturer/researcher at his alma mater in Urban Studies and obtained his doctorate in Geography for research about the roots and prospects of green urbanisation, on which he wrote various publications. He taught by invitation for extended periods at several universities worldwide, such as University of Pennsylvania, Cambridge University, University of Hull, University College London, Bergen University Norway, University of Hanover Germany, Vienna University of Technology Austria, and has held professorships at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Beijing Union University, Victoria University, Australia, Nyenrode Business University.