Profile

Herma Kuperus

Seconded National Expert
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Fields of Specialisation:
Public administration and public management; organisational development; human resource management; labour market; strategic management, policy making and evaluation; quality issues and benchmarking.


CV in English
Herma Kuperus (NL) joined EIPA on 1 November 2006 as a Seconded National Expert in the Public Management and Comparative Public Administration Unit.
She studied urban and regional planning at the Technical University of Delft and finished her studies at the Technical University of Berlin. During her professional career, she conducted eight years of socio-economic research on employment, labour market and (Eu)regional development issues at the Economic Technological Institute for the Province of Zeeland.
For over three years, she was a programme manager leading a team of internal and external experts creating self-teaching materials for university-level distance education in the field of social science (labour and organisation) at the Dutch Open University in Heerlen. She developed written and interactive audiovisual study materials and a television programme about work and society, labour market mechanisms, human resource management, quality of work and working conditions.
Before joining EIPA, she worked at the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment for over 15 years. As Unit Head and deputy Director of the Department for Personnel and Organisation (P&O) she was responsible for strategy, policy making and evaluation and in charge of the planning and control system relating to the measuring of P&O results of the entire Ministry. She did consultancy activities and advised the political and administrative top management, especially the Secretary-General, on issues regarding the (innovation of) public administration and management, and individual legal or integrity affairs. During this period, she worked on many subjects related to HRM and organisational development in public administration. She participated in working committees together with people from other ministries and gave presentations, also for international groups.
Her fields of specialisation are: Public administration and public management; organisational development; human resource management; labour market; strategic management, policy making and evaluation; quality issues and benchmarking.