Maarten Hillebrandt is assistant professor in public management. He specializes in EU institutional law and governance, and has widely published on government transparency policy in and beyond the EU. In recent research, Maarten focuses on related public information questions related to the quantification of performance in the public sector, and disinformation.

Maarten has previously held positions at the Eric Castrén Institute for International Law and Human Rights, Helsinki University; the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University; and the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG), University of Amsterdam. In addition, he has been a visiting fellow at the Research Centre for the Analysis of Governance and Public Policy in Europe (LAGAPE), University of Lausanne, the Centre for European Research (CERGU), Gothenburg University, and the European University Institute (EUI), Florence. Maarten participated in various multiple-year international research projects, namely Open Government in the EU (2010-2017), Quantification, Administrative Capacity, and Democracy (2017-2019) Transparency in the EU, From Reaction to Manifesto (2017-2021), en Separation of Powers for 21st Century Europe (2021-2022). Currently, Maarten is involved in Utrecht University's inter-faculty cooperation within the cross-cutting sector plan Welfare, participation and citizenship in a digital world.

In 2017, Maarten defended a dissertation on the historical development of the access to documents policy of the Council of the EU at the University of Amsterdam. This dissertation was awarded the annual Van Poelje Prize for the best dissertation in the field of public administration in the Netherlands and Flanders.

Maarten's research interests include the policy and politics of government information, transparency theory, EU institutional decision making, socio-legal and qualitative research, and institutional informality.

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