PBL Advisory Board
The task of the PBL Advisory Board (BC) is to monitor both scientific quality and social relevance of PBL’s work. Supervision of scientific quality includes, in any case, ensuring periodic audits. Supervision of scientific quality focuses on the main lines of the quality policy (including supervision of the manner of its implementation). In addition, a limited number of individual projects are discussed annually in terms of quality and relevance.
Supervision of social relevance includes advising on the annual PBL Work Program. The supervisory role mainly takes the form of reflecting on the working methods and content of PBL's work, with the Advisory Board acting as a sparring partner for PBL’s management. In addition, where necessary, the BC serves as a discussion partner for the Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management with regard to PBL's performance; PBL is organizationally part of the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment. Members of the Advisory Board are always appointed for a period of 4 years, with the possibility of reappointment.
Members
- Professor Elbert Dijkgraaf, Professor of Economics of the Public Sector at Erasmus University Rotterdam and former Member of Parliament for the SGP (chairman)
- Manon Bloemer, Director General at the Association of the Dutch Chemical Industry (VNCI)
- Eric Frijters, Msc, architect and founding partner and director of design agency Fabrications
- Professor dr. Marjolijn Haasnoot, expert on climate adaption at Deltares and Professor Climate Adaption in Deltas and Coasts at Utrecht University
- Paul ’t Hart, Professor of Public Administration, Utrecht University School of Governance & NSOB - Netherlands School for Public Administration
- Peter Molengraaf, Msc, MBA, frontman of the ‘Topsector Energie’
- Mirjam Sterk, Msc, member of Provincial Executive of the province of Utrecht with the portfolio Nature and Agriculture, ‘Groen Groeit Mee’, Europe, and Transition of the rural area