Maurits van Rooijen

Maurits van Rooijen FRSA (Breda, 1956) is a Dutch Social and Economic Historian with a doctorate in Geography from Utrecht University. His research has been about green urbanisation and re-interpreting the garden city principles. In recent publications, with Ad de Rooij, he has promoted the concept of the, Global Knowledge City arguing that in the 21st century besides the need to blend urbanisation with agriculture and manufacturing (the original garden city mission), global knowledge innovation should be at the core of sustainable urbanisation.
In 2013 he was awarded the prize for EAIE Constance Meldrum Award for Vision & LeadershipSince 2012, he has been the CEO & Rector of the London School of Business and Finance (LSBF)

Born in Breda, Netherlands in 1956, Maurits van Rooijen attended the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwe lyceum (gymnasium beta) and studied at Utrecht University. In parallel to his postgraduate in Social and Economic History degree, he also did the postgraduate programme in Sociology for Built Environment. He was lecturer/researcher at his alma mater in Urban Studies and obtained his doctorate in Geography for research about the roots and prospects of green urbanisation, on which he wrote various publications. He taught by invitation for extended periods at several universities worldwide, such as University of Pennsylvania, Cambridge University, University of Hull, University College London, Bergen University Norway, University of Hanover Germany, Vienna University of Technology Austria, and has held professorships at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Beijing Union University, Victoria University, Australia, Nyenrode Business University.

After working at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in various senior administrative roles (1987-1993), van Rooijen moved to the University of Westminster, London. From 1993-2009, whilst at the University of Westminster, Van Rooijen drove the institution to become one of highest earners in the UK for international income. During his 16 years at the institution, University of Westminster received the Queen's Awards for Enterprisefor two consecutive periods; in 2000, for achievements in international education, and in 2005, for innovative ventures such as the opening of the Westminster International University in Tashkent, in Uzbekistan.

In 2009 Maurits van Rooijen took up the position of Rector Magnificus and CEO of Nyenrode Business University.

Van Rooijen became Rector and CEO of the London School of Business and Finance(LSBF), a private for-profit business school based in London, in 2012. He was appointed to expand innovation of all schools belonging to the LSBF Group and St Patrick's College, London which like the LSBF Group, is owned by Global University Systems. Since 2013 he has been Academic CEO of Global University Systems, Acting Rector of GISMA Business School in Germany (also owned by Global University Systems) and remains the CEO and Rector of London School of Business and Finance.

From 2009-2012 he was chairman of the Euro-Mediterranean University of Slovenia, and has since 2008 he has been president of the Compostela Group of Universities,

He has also been co-chairman of the World Association for Cooperative Education, a Boston-based organization dedicated to promoting work-integrated and experiential learning, since 2008, and has been vice-president of the European Access Network, a London-based organization encouraging access to higher education for underrepresented groups, for over 15 years. He is an associate of Global Higher Education Consultants

Sustainable urbanisation

• De Groene Stad(The Green City), (SDU: The Hague 1984)
• Open Space, Urban Planning and the Evolution of the Green City, in: R.Freestone,
• Garden Cities for the 21st century?(KDU: Kobe 2001) With Takahito Saiki and Robert Freestone
• The Global Knowledge Cities Concept, in: Beliefs and values (Vol. 3, No. 1, 2011) With A. de Rooij

Public and applied history

• Toegepaste Geschiedenis(SDU: The Hague 1994)

Innovation and internationalisation of higher education

• Co-operative Education in Europe (CGU 2002)
• The Multinational University With David Jones and Stephen Adam(Occasional Papers series, EAIE 2003)
• Marketing your institution internationally (Professional Development series, EAIE 2008)
• International Strategic Planning, in: EUA/ACA Handbook Internationalisation of European HigherEducation (Raabe: Berlin 2008)
• Social, Political an Industrial Drivers of Higher Education, in: Joy Higgs et al., Education for Future Practice (Sense: Rotterdam, 2010) With Ian Goulter

• Maurits van Rooijen (1984). De groene stad: een historische studie over de groenvoorziening in de Nederlandse stad. Cultuurfonds van de Bank Voor Nederlandsche Gemeenten. ISBN 978-90-322-2716-6. Retrieved 12 February 2013. 
• Robert Freestone; Maurits van Rooijen (12 November 2012). Urban Planning in a Changing World: The Twentieth Century Experience. Routledge. pp. 208–. ISBN 978-1-136-74459-4. Retrieved 12 February 2013. 
• Maurits van Rooijen; Robert Freestone; Takahito Saiki (July 2002). New Garden City in the 21st Century?. ISBN 978-4-9901317-1-5. Retrieved 12 February 2013. 
• Maurits van Rooijen (2002). Co-operative Education in Europe: A Partnership Between Government, Employer, Student and the University. Compostela Group of Universities. ISBN 978-84-607-5514-2. Retrieved 12 February 2013. 
• Maurits van Rooijen; David R. Jones; Stephen Adam (2003). The Multinational University. European Association for International Education (EAIE). ISBN 978-90-74721-19-6. Retrieved 12 February 2013. 
• Maurits van Rooijen (2008). Marketing your institution internationally. EAIE, European Association for International Education. ISBN 978-90-74721-29-5. Retrieved 12 February 2013. 
• Joy Higgs; Della Fish; Ian Goulter; Maurits van Rooijen (September 2010). Education for Future Practice. Sense Publishers. ISBN 978-94-6091-318-1. Retrieved 12 February 2013. 
• Maurits van Rooijen (2008). Internationalisation of European Higher Education: "An EUA/ACA Handbook". dr josef raabe verlags gmbh. pp. 45–. ISBN 978-3-8183-0543-7. Retrieved 12 February 2013.