Klaartje Peters (1969) holds a Special Chair in Local and Regional Governance for 1 day a week. The rest of the week she works as a independent researcher and writer. Her research focuses on political decision-making, both at the national and subnational level, and on regional and local governance.

Recently she focuses her research efforts on scrutiny and accountability in local government, and the work of local councillors.

In 2015 she published Een doodgewoon kabinet. Acht jaar Paars 1994-2002, about the two 'purple' cabinets in the Netherlands, led by prime minister Wim Kok. 

In 2007 she wrote an influential book on the reform of regional governance in the Netherlands.

She works as a freelance lecturer for several Dutch universities, at master and post-graduate level, and is involved in many different in-company training programs for politicians and civil servants, ranging from trainees to high-level civil servants of several ministries.

She is the chair of the Court of Audit of the municipality of Beuningen, and a member of the Court of Audit of the municipality of Venlo.