Wieger Bakker is professor at the Utrecht University School of Governance within the faculty of Law, Economics and Governance (LEG). He holds a chair in Quality and Innovation of Society Oriented Higher Education. From 2017 until 2023 he was chairing the board of the Centre for Academic Teaching of Utrecht University and deputy director of the Inter University Centre Dubrovnik.

From 2010 to 2018 he was director of the undergraduate program of the School of Governance. In December 2018 he was appointed as Dean Lifelong Learning for Utrecht University.

In his work he is especially interested in university continuing education, citizenship education in a pluriform society; international cooperation in higher education; and in embedding inclusiveness and social responsibility in higher education.  

Next to his work in Utrecht he is Deputy Director General of the Interuniversity Centre Dubrovnik and guest professor at the Masaryk University in Brno. In 2020 he was apointed extra-ordinary professor Governance, Community and Cohesion at the University of Aruba.