President, World Association for Co-operative Education, Boston MA, USA

• President, Compostela Group of Universities (Santiago de Compostela, Spain) President,World Association for Co-operative Education (Boston, Ma).
• Vice-President, European Access Network (London UK) Vice-Chairman, World Cities university network (London, UK) Co-chairman Management Board and  member of Senate, Euro-Mediterranean University (Portoroz, Slovenia).
• Maurits joined the University of Westminster in 1993, after previous working at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and in an academic position at his alma mater, Utrecht University.
• In 1998 he had a sabbatical to take up the position of PVC (executive vice-president) of the Victoria University, Melbourne and from 1999-2005 a part-time secondment was arranged with Leiden University for similar post. He has held visiting academic and honorary appointments in the UK (Hull, Cambridge, University of London), USA (University of Pennsylvania), Europe (Bergen, Hanover, Vienna) and China (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies and Beijing Union University).
• His academic publications are in the field of sustainable town planning and he has produced a large number of publications in the public history domain (twenty books, extensive educational television and radio work, thousands of journalistic articles).
• He is a frequent speaker at international conferences and symposia on the subject of international and transnational education.