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dr. ir. Frédérique Six, MBA


Full Professor, School of Business and Economics, Accounting

Full Professor, Research Programmes - Social Sciences, New Public Governance (NPG)

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Frédérique Six is Full Professor Trust-based Public Governance at the Department of Accounting at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research interest lies in resilient public governance challenges in general and more specifically the contingent relationship between trust and control. The focus is on the relation between control- and trust-oriented policies and practices; trust and regulatory enforcement; trust in and within regulatory regimes; and trust in, within and between (public) organisations. She has expertise in both quantitative and qualitative (comparative) research methods.

She was recently actively involved in the H2020-SC6-GOVERNANCE-01-2019: Trust in Governance and Regulation in Europe consortium (TiGRE, 2020-2023), grant agreement nr 870722

She has a long-standing and fruitful collaboration with the University of Antwerp and is a visiting professor in the University of Antwerp’s Centre of Excellence Trust and distrust in multi-level governance (GOVTRUST).

Her passion is to translate academic insights to practice regarding public governance and organization issues (www.frederiquesix.nl).

Teaching

Awarded best teacher of the year 2022 in the VU School of Governance.

Current:

  • Executive education: Academic director of: Sturen en leidinggeven vanuit vertrouwen programme
    Academic director of: Bestuur en Toezicht in het (semi)publieke domein.
    Academic director of: Three lines model: maatschappelijke waardecreatie vanuit vertrouwen
  • Postgraduate education: GOVTRUST Summer School (University Antwerp)
  • Many master classes and workshops for practitioners: ongoing
Ancillary activities
  • Universiteit Antwerpen | Antwerpen | Gastprofessor | 2019-10-01 - present
  • TrustXNetwork | Amsterdam | Member Advisory Board | 2024-01-01 - present

Ancillary activities are updated daily

dr. ir. Frédérique Six, MBA

Keywords

  • Trust, Control, Public governance, Regulation

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