Sebastiaan Princen is Associate Professor in the field of governance and policymaking in the European Union. He teaches courses on public law and (European) governance and supervises master's theses in USG’s educational programmes.


His research focuses on issues of international and European governance, more specifically policy-making in the European Union. He has published extensively on processes of agenda-setting in the EU. His current research deals with the implementation of EU policies and citizen participation in the EU. In addition, Sebastiaan has participated in studies on the Europeanisation of the Dutch civil service, the role of interest groups in the EU, the role of policy paradigms in the EU, and cross-border cooperation between governmental organizations.