Judith van Leeuwen

Dr. Judith van Leeuwen is an Associate Professor in the WIMEK (Environmental Policy Group) at Wageningen University & Research, specializing in Environmental Policy. Her research focuses on plastic pollution, marine governance, and reflexive policy frameworks, with significant work on the EU’s Single-Use Plastic Directive and its impact on corporate practices.

• Key Research Areas: Plastic pollution, marine and coastal environments, environmental law, climate change policy.
• Recent Projects: PhD supervision on circular practices in hospitals, marine pollution governance, and EU policy implementation.
• Editorial Roles: Guest editor for Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning (2025), peer reviewer for Ocean & Coastal Management (since 2015).

Her 15 most recent articles (2025–2024) explore collaborative marine governance models, corporate reflexivity under EU directives, and socio-ecological impacts of plastic pollution, with keywords spanning governance, policy analysis, and political systems. She also contributes to datasets on circular strategy design (2022) and organizes academic workshops on living lab methodologies.