HONORARY MEMBERS

Dr. Ahmed Shafiqul Huque is a Professor of Political Science at the McMaster University, Canada. His research and teaching interests are in public administration and management, public policy, development, South Asian government and politics, governance and climate change. He has published thirteen books and numerous research articles in leading international journals including Public Administration Review, Governance, Public Management Review, International Review of Administrative Sciences, International Journal of Public Administration, Journal of Comparative and Comparative Politics, Pacific Affairs and Asian Survey. Dr. Huque was the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Public Administration and Policy, and Contributing Editor for Southeast Asia for the on-line Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Policy. He has provided consulting services to various organizations including the Companies Registry of Hong Kong Government, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) and Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) and assessed grant applications for NORAD and DFID. huqueas@mcmaster.ca https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/people/shafiqul-huque-ahmed

Professor Akira NAKAMURA had served as both Vice President and Dean of the Graduate School of Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan for eight years until March 2008. In 2019, he was nominated as one of the three distinguished professor emeriti of the university. He received his B.A. in political science at the University of California, Berkeley in 1966. He subsequently obtained a Ph.D. in political science at the University of Southern California in 1973. In 1986, he was the research fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Until 2012, Nakamura was the Vice President of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (Brussels) and a former chair of the Committee of Experts on Public Administration in the United Nations. He was the member of both the Board of Governance and the international editor of Public Administration Review. In 2016, Nakamura became the first Japanese to become the ‘Fellow’ in the National Academy of Public Administration in the United States. Nakamura delivered the Brabant Lecture at the annual meeting of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences held in Bali, Indonesia in 2010. nakamura@meiji.ac.jp nakamura@meiji.ac.jp

Professor Alasdair Roberts is Director of the School of Public Policy at University of Massachusetts Amherst. He writes extensively on problems of governance, law and public policy. His recent books are Four Crises of American Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2017), Can Government Do Anything Right? (Polity Books, 2018), and Strategies for Governing: Reinventing Public Administration for a Dangerous Century (Cornell University Press, 2019). Previous books include The End of Protest (2013), America’s First Great Depression (2012), The Logic of Discipline: Global Capitalism and the Architecture of Government (2010), The Collapse of Fortress Bush (2008), and Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age (Cambridge University Press, 2006). In 2014 he received the Grace-Pépin Access to Information Award for his research on open government. Professor Roberts is a Canadian citizen. He received his law degree from the University of Toronto and his PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University. He is also a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. His website is asroberts@umass.edu http://www.aroberts.us.

Dr. Alex B. Brillantes, Jr, is Professor at the National College of Public Administration and Governance at the University of the Philippines where he also served as its Dean. He obtained his PhD and MA in Political Science from the University of Hawaii as scholar of the East West Center, and MPA and AB Political Science from the University of the Philippines. Brillantes is President of the Asian Association for Public Administration and also President of the Philippine Society for Public Administration. Brillantes was a Commissioner (Deputy Minister) of the Commission on Higher Education from 2013 to 2017 where he served as Chair of the Boards of Regents of 21 State Universities and Colleges in the Philippines. Brillantes also was Executive Director of the Local Government Academy of the Department of Interior and Local Government from 1992 to 1998 As a scholar, Professor Brillantes has published articles on public administration and governance and institutions, decentralization, development administration, public sector reform and leadership in several local and international journals He has written three books, Dictatorship and Martial Law (1986); The Philippine Presidency (1994); and Innovations and Excellence in Local Governance (2003). He has also served as consultant of several international agencies including the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, United States Agency for International Development, Japan International Cooperation Agency, United Nations Development Program, Australian Agency for international Development and the European Union. Brillantes was visiting Professor in Kobe University, Meiji University and the Graduate Research Institute for Policy Studies in Japan; Visiting Fellow at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia; delivered lectures at the National Institute of Development Administration in Bangkok, Thailand, Tunghai University of Taiwan. the Euromed School in Marseilles, France and the Sungkyunkwan University in Korea. abbrillantes@up.edu.ph abbrillantes@up.edu.ph

Dr. Alexander Kotchegura is a Professor at the Institute of Public Administration and Civil Service of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA). He obtained his PhD in Public Administration from Leiden University – the oldest University in the Netherlands. Professor Kotchegura is Vice-President of the Asian Association for Public Administration. He is also Member of the Board of Directors of the International Public Management Network. He has an extensive experience of working as a staff member in international organizations including the World Bank, the European Commission, the CMEA. He has published extensively in the national and international scientific journals on public sector reform, comparative governance, performance management, anticorruption strategies. He is also Member of the Editorial Board of international academic periodicals including International Public Management Journal, International Journal of Public Administration, Public Organization Review, International Public Management Review. https://igsu.ranepa.ru/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Koch.jpg ap.kochegura@migsu.ru

Dr. Alikhan Baimenov is the Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Astana Civil Service Hub (ACSH). ACSH promotes civil service effectiveness by supporting the efforts of governments of countries of the region and beyond in building institutional and human resource capacity of national public administrations. ACSH serves as multilateral platform for exchange of experience and knowledge sharing in the field public administration and public service delivery among 43 participating countries and over 80 institutional partners from different parts of the world. Dr. Baimenov is a distinguished public figure, who has held leading public posts in the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In his political career has served as the Head of the Executive Office of the President, Head of the Office of the Prime Minister, Chairman of the Agency for Civil Service Affairs, Minister of Labour and Social Protection and as a member of the Parliament of Kazakhstan. Dr. Baimenov headed two stages of civil service reforms. In the result, the first “Law on Civil Service” and the competition-based recruitment of civil servants were implemented. In addition to other initiatives, it included introduction of Senior Executive Service – Corps “A” and professionalization of HR departments. Under his leadership, for the first time among the CIS countries, the concept of three-level model of social protection and model of implementation of social insurance were developed in Kazakhstan. Dr. Baimenov is the author of the series of publications on issues on social protection, public management and civil service, as well as political and party building.

Professor Andrew is the Academic Director of the International School for Government. He has worked in a range of areas including British, European, and US policy and politics. His main areas of research include comparative public policy, public administration and issues around the reform and modernization of government and governance. Andrew has worked on secondment and as an advisor to a range of UK and European government bodies. He is Editor in Chief of the journal International Review of Administrative Sciences, and Editor of Public Money and Management. He is a member of the Council of Administration of the International Institute for Administrative Sciences. His community work included over 17 years as a Justice of the Peace. andrew.1.massey@kcl.ac.uk

Dr Barbara Allen is Deputy Head of School & Senior Lecturer in Public Management and Policy at the School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka, New Zealand. Barbara has held academic roles at the University of Nottingham, School of Sociology and Social Policy, the Institute of Public Management and Governance, Warwick Business School, and the Institute of Local Government Studies at the University of Birmingham, as well as research and teaching roles at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University Canada. Barbara has been involved in a wide array of research programmes spanning current public policy and management problems. She is an expert in strategic public procurement and is interested in associated problems at the nexus of public, private and the social sectors. Barbara has recent publications in the Journal of Public Procurement on New Zealand public procurement, the Australian Journal of Public Administration on performance improvement, Government Information Quarterly on smart cities and in the European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review on SMEs and procurement. She currently has 4 PhD students studying contracting, procurement and digital government. Barbara has advised the OECD on digital government, worked on SME procurement research in Uganda and consulted to Sanofi Pasteur on vaccine procurement. Barbara spent 10 years in the Canadian Air Force as a Captain in Logistics. Barbara is a Wellington School of Business and Government representative to the Victoria University Academic Board. Barbara is a Member of the Australia New Zealand School of Government (ANZOG) Research Committee. She is an active member of the Wellington School of Business and Government (School of Government) School Research Committee, the Professional Programmes Board of Studies and is on the Institute of Public Administration of New Zealand advisory committee. Barbara was recently the Chair of the executive committee, Wellington chapter of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply.

Dr. B. Guy Peters is Maurice Falk Professor of Government at the University of Pittsburgh, and founding President of the International Public Policy Association. He holds a PhD degree from Michigan State University and has honorary doctorates from four European universities. He is currently editor of the International Review of Public Policy and associate editor of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis. His most recent books include Institutional Theory in Political Science, (4th ed, 2019), Governance, Politics and the State (2nd ed., with Jon Pierre 2020), and Administrative Traditions: Understanding the Roots of Contemporary Administrative Behavior (2021). bgpeters@pitt.edu

Mr. Bokyun Shim is Head of Office of the United Nations Project Office on Governance (UNPOG), an integral part of the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG), UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA). Since his inauguration in March 2020, he has been dedicated to contributing to strengthening public administration capacities in developing Member States to advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Prior to joining the United Nations, Mr. Shim was Vice Minister of the Interior and Safety of the Government of the Republic of Korea. Mr. Shim also held various senior positions including Vice Governor for Administrative Affairs of Jeonbuk Province, Assistant Ministers for Planning and Coordination of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety and the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, as well as Chair Professor at the Korea National Open University. During his long and rich experiences in state affairs from 1988 to 2018 with the Government of the Republic of Korea, Mr. Shim had contributed to government innovation, decentralization and digital government development by working for the central and local governments, and the Office of the President of the Republic of Korea. Mr. Shim completed a Doctorate course on Governance at Sungkyunkwan University in Korea and has a Master’s degree in Policy Analysis from Saitama University in Japan, a Master’s degree in Public Administration and a Bachelor’s degree from Seoul bokyun.shim@un.org

Professor Catherine Althaus is the ANZSOG Chair of Public Service Leadership and Reform at the University of New South Wales in Canberra and Deputy Dean (Teaching and Learning) at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government. She was previously Director of the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, an Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne, post-doctoral fellow at the Australian National University and held policy posts as a practitioner in the Queensland government. Her academic training is in economics, politics and public policy and she specialises in working with First Peoples communities across Canada, Australia, Aotearoa-New Zealand and South Africa focusing on the leadership contributions of Indigenous public servants and opportunities to learn from and enact Indigenous ways of knowing and being in policymaking. Her recent co-authored book Leading from Between: Indigenous Participation and Leadership in the Public Service is the first international comparative volume centring the voices, stories and insights of Canadian and Australian Indigenous public servants. She is co-author of the popular textbook The Australian Policy Handbook, editor of the Australian Journal of Public Administration, an IPAA Victoria Fellow, a University Medallist, an award-winning researcher, and an Australia Day Medallion winner for service to the Queensland Treasury department. She is Co-Director of the ANZSOG Executive Fellows Program, and is currently teaching into programs with Government of Samoa officials, the National Indigenous Australians Agency, conducts senior delegations to Aotearoa-New Zealand and publishes on reform agendas associated with Indigenous public administration. Catherine is an Adjunct Professor with the University of Victoria, Canada and Griffith University and was recently appointed an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria. c.althaus@anzsog.edu.au

Professor Colin Knox, Ph.D. joined the Nazarbayev University’s Graduate School of Public Policy as Professor of Public Policy in 2016. Dr Knox received his doctorate in public policy from Queen’s University Belfast, one of the Russell Group Universities in the United Kingdom. His fields of research include: public sector reform in developed and developing countries; local government; and public policy evaluation. He has also written widely on the politics of divided societies. Prior to joining Nazarbayev University, Dr. Knox worked at Ulster University in the United Kingdom where he taught modules (Public Administration and Governance, Research Methods and Contemporary Issues in Public Policy) on the Masters in Public Administration Programme. He also led a team which designed the Professional Doctorate Programme (D.Gov) aimed at senior officials working in the public sector. Dr. Knox also spent 8 years as a practitioner working in local government in the UK prior to joining academia. colin.knox@nu.edu.kz

Dr. Colin‘s main area of expertise in is public services and public management reform. He has completed major international comparative studies on the creation of arms-length agencies (for the UK government and ESRC); of the use of performance reporting systems (for the National Audit Office); and of budget participation and scrutiny systems (for the Scottish Parliament). Colin has advised Parliamentary Committees on performance and public spending issues for the Treasury, Public Administration and Welsh Affairs Committees. He is currently looking at the interface between academia and policymaking through a series of studies and experimental virtual “Policy Labs”. Colin has advised a wide range of international public sector organisations and/or carried out research in countries as diverse as Canada, Jamaica, Mexico, Tanzania, India, Bangladesh, Japan, Hong Kong, Malta and Sweden and spoken at conferences and seminars in over two dozen countries. Colin has had an unconventional career – he left school at 16 and worked in various jobs before going to Manchester University as an undergraduate at 21. After Manchester he worked in a variety of mainly public sector posts before completing an MSc in Public Sector Management at Southbank University (with Distinction) and then becoming a senior lecturer in 1990 at Southbank. He completed a PhD at the London School of Economics before becoming Chair of Public Policy and Management at Glamorgan University in 1995 and Chair of Public Policy at Nottingham in 2003 and first as Chair of Public Policy and Management at Manchester Business School and most recently professor of Government in Politics. Colin.Talbot@manchester.ac.uk

Dr. Evan as Professor in Public Management joined FGV EAESP. His research areas are public performance and management, comparative public management and public leadership. He spent the last 15 years in Asia-Pacific, received his Ph.D. at George Washington University in Washington, and is recipient of major research and received awards. These include the Fred Riggs Award for lifetime career achievements in International and Comparative Public Administration, the Distinguished Research Award, jointly awarded by the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) and the Network of Public Schools for Politics, Affairs and Administration (NASPAA), the H. George Award Fredrickson Award and the Outstanding Scholarship in Human Resources Public Management (ASPA). A creative mind and studious leader, his current research interests focus on strategic management in national governments, international practices for increasing the diffusion of innovations, and strengthening employee resilience in the public sector. He has published articles in all of the main international journals in public administration, 15 books, including the textbook “Human Resources Management in Public Service” Sage 2019, 6th ed. He has worked with government ministries and agencies and served on the editorial boards of journals and as journal editor. He is editor of book series (Routledge, Emerald). He is also currently adjunct (chair) professor at Fudan University (Shanghai), University of Indonesia (Jakarta) and Chengchi University (Taipei). Evan has over 30 years of experience at leading universities in the USA, Asia and New Zealand. evan.berman@fgv.br

Geske Dijkstra published extensively on aid and debt issues, on gender equality measures, and on economic policies and economic reforms in developing countries. In the 1980s, she lived and worked several years in Central America. From 1990 onwards, she has been affiliated with several Dutch academic institutions. In these positions she combined research and teaching with carrying out studies and consultancies for organizations involved in development cooperation, such as the World Bank, the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She is the (co-)author or (co-)editor of eight books, and author of many articles published in international journals such as Development and Change, Feminist Economics, World Development and Development Policy Review. dijkstra@essb.eur.nl

Dr Ian C Elliott is Associate Professor of Public Leadership and Management at Northumbria University and co-Editor in Chief of Public Administration and Development. His research includes work on public leadership, strategy in government, organisational change in the public sector and teaching public administration. He has extensive consultancy and research experience and has successfully supervised and examined up to doctoral level. Dr Elliott holds several academic leadership positions nationally and internationally. He is the current Honorary Chair and trustee of the Joint University Council (JUC) – the UK learned society for public administration, public policy and social work. In this capacity he represents UK universities who teach and research in these subjects. He is subject expert in Public Sector and Healthcare on the CABS Academic Journal Guide Committee. He co-convenes the International Institute of Administrative Sciences EGPA Permanent Study Group IX Teaching Public Administration. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of Teaching Public Administration, Policy and Administration, Journal of Public Affairs Education and Public Administration: An International Quarterly.

Dr. James L. Perry is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington. From 2012 through 2017 he was Editor in Chief of Public Administration Review (PAR), the premiere global professional journal in public administration. He is currently co-editor for Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration. His scholarship covers public management, civil service reform, and national and community service. He has pioneered research on public service motivation and public pay for performance. Perry has edited three editions of the Handbook of Public Administration, most recently in 2015 (with Robert Christensen, Jossey-Bass). The Handbook is a leading comprehensive resource for public professionals. In 2020, he edited Public Service and Good Governance for the Twenty-first Century (U of Penn Press), in collaboration with the Volcker Alliance. His newest book, Managing Organizations to Sustain Passion for Public Service (Cambridge University Press, 2021), was published in December 2020. The book is the culmination of Perry’s 30 years of research on public service motivation. It provides detailed proposals for how emerging behavioral-science knowledge can be used to reimagine motivation of public employees, civil service policies and management practices. The book is a blueprint for transforming civil service systems globally. Perry’s leadership in the field is exemplified by recognitions received during his career. He received the Yoder-Heneman Award for innovative personnel research from the Society for Human Resource Management. He received two awards, the Charles H. Levine Memorial Award for Excellence in Public Administration and the Distinguished Research Award, given jointly by the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) and the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs and Administration (NASPAA). ASPA has recognized him with two awards, the Paul P. Van Riper Award for Excellence and Service and the Dwight Waldo Award for career contributions to public administration. He received the H. George Frederickson Award for career contributions from the Public Management Research Association in 2015. In 2017 he received the John Gaus Award from the American Political Science Association for a lifetime of exemplary scholarship in the joint tradition of political science and public administration. He was awarded the Routledge Prize for outstanding contributions to public management research from the International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM) in 2018. In 2021 he was honored with the Keith Provan Award from the Public and Nonprofit Division of the Academy of Management. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Perry received an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago and M.P.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. In 1992, Perry served as special assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Personnel Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In 1999-2000, he was special assistant and senior evaluator at the Corporation for National and Community Service. In 2006-2007, he was Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Perry has also held faculty appointments at University of California, Irvine, Chinese University of Hong Kong, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Yonsei University, and University of Hong Kong. perry@indiana.edu

Dr. Janine O’Flynn is the Director of the ANU Crawford School of Public Policy, the leading Public Policy school in the region. She is an expert in public administration and management, having advised governments around the world on issues ranging from the design of effective performance management systems through to collaborative approaches to policy design and implementation. She is a Fellow of the US National Academy of Public Administration and the Institute of Public Administration Australia, and she sits on several advisory boards. Janine is an award-winning researcher and educator, and is committed to better understanding how government works, and contributing to improving the outcomes of those activities. https://crawford.anu.edu.au/people/academic/janine-oflynn janine.oflynn@anu.edu.au

Professor Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling joined the University of Nottingham in September 2004. He received his MSc in European Politics and Policy and his PhD in Government from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to joining Nottingham, he was a Tutorial Fellow in Comparative Public Administration and Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Lecturer in European Politics at Birkbeck College, London. In 2007/2008, Jan-Hinrik was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. In 2013/2014, he was a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute. He has been a Professor of Political Science since 2015. https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/politics/people/j.meyer-sahling j.meyer-sahling@nottingham.ac.uk

Dr. Jiannan Wu is distinguished Professor and Executive Vice Director of China Institute for Urban Governance and Head of Division and Liberal Arts and Social Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. After obtaining his Ph.D. at the School of Management at Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU) in 1999, he was appointed as a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Technology and Information Policy (CTIP) of Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University until 2001. He also worked as a Fellow in the Ash Center of Harvard Kennedy School in 2012. Dr. Wu has been elected as the President of the Asian Association for Public Administration in September 2020. Dr. Wu has worked on urban governance and digital transformation, and reform & innovation. jnwu@sjtu.edu.cn

Dr. Jon Pierre is a research professor in the department of political science, University of Gothenburg and professor of public governance at the Melbourne School of Government, University of Melbourne. He is also adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He has held numerous overseas visiting appointments, most recently at the City University of Hong Kong, University of Melbourne and University of Auckland. His research is focused on contemporary governance, both in developing governance theory and in empirical research on the changing role of political institutions. He particularly interested in new modes of governance and issues related to their capacity to deliver political responsiveness and democratic accountability. His teaching and tutoring areas include administrative reform, public management, governance. https://www.gu.se/en/about/find-staff/jonpierre jon.pierre@pol.gu.se

Professor Ken is Dean and CEO of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) and was the Agent General for Queensland based in London. He has headed the Queensland Departments of Premier and Cabinet, Infrastructure, Education, Arts, Employment and Training, Family Services and Housing Local Government and Planning. He has taken a public policy and administration leadership role at state and national levels. Ken was awarded an Order of Australia (AO) in mid-2021 for distinguished service to public administration and public sector leadership and education. He is a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators and Educational Leadership, an Enterprise Professor at University of Melbourne and held numerous adjunct professorial positions. He is a board member of a number of companies and authorities. k.smith@anzsog.edu.au

Dr. Kim Moloney’s research focuses on the intersection of the public administration discipline with international organizations, transnational administration, and good governance and the intersection of the public administration discipline with the unique administrative and policy challenges of small states and small island states. She has published nearly 20 journal articles in publications, including Public Administration Review, American Review of Public Administration, Pacific Review, Review of Public Personnel Administration, Global Policy, and International Review of Administrative Sciences. Dr. Moloney is a Co-Editor of the Book Series on Transnational Administration and Global Policy with Bristol University Press. Additionally, she serves on the editorial board of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Administration along with Administrative Theory & Praxis. She is currently working on a solo-authored book (Who Matters at the World Bank) with Oxford University Press which is expected to be published by early 2022. She is co-chair of the COVID-19 Committee of the American Society of Public Administration (ASPA), where she is currently serving until April 2023. From April 2019 to April 2021, Dr. Moloney was the elected Chair of the Section on International and Comparative Administration within ASPA. kmoloney@hbku.edu.qa

Dr. Kohei Suzuki is Assistant Professor at Institute of Public Administration, the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs at Leiden University, the Hague, the Netherlands. He holds the title of docent (Associate Professor) in Political Science at the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He is also a Research Associate with the Quality of Government Institute (QoG Institute) at the same department, and worked as a post-doctoral research fellow from 2016 to 2018. He received his Joint Ph.D in Public Policy from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) (now Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs )and the Department of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington in June 2016. His research projects stand at the nexus of public management, organizational behavior, and political science with a focus on comparative public administration and management. In particular, he studies how bureaucratic structures and administrative reforms affect policy outcomes, organizational behavior of civil servants, and broader societal outcomes with a comparative perspective. His work has been published in Public Administration Review, Journal of European Public Policy, Governance, Public Management Review, Policy & Politics, Public Policy and Administration, International Review of Administrative Sciences, Social Policy & Administration, and several other peer-reviewed academic journals. He serves as an editorial board member of Public Administration Review, Local Government Studies, Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, Journal of Policy Studies, International Journal of Public Administration, and Governance & Management Review. Google Scholar https://scholar.google.se/citations?user=yXHSXqIAAAAJ&hl=en

Krishna K. Tummala, having taught College for eight years in India, left for the United States in 1968, and has been living there since. He is Professor Emeritus, and was Director of Graduate Program in Public Administration at Kansas State University. Besides ten books (published in India, Singapore and USA), he has over 81 articles in refereed journals internationally, over 100 conference presentations around the world, and 70 Op. Ed. pieces in popular print medium in the US. His last book was Politics of Preference: India, United States and South Africa (Taylor Francis, USA 2015). The latest edited, Corruption in the Public Sector: An International Perspective, is out in March 2021 from Emerald Publishers, UK. He traveled extensively, and made presentation at several national and international conferences. He served on the governing bodies of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) and the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA), and was President of public administration honor society, Pi Alpha Alpha. Among the several awards he received are: Paul H. Appleby Award for “Distinguished Service to Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), and Public Administration, 2011”; Fred Riggs Award for “Lifetime Scholarly Achievement in the Field of Comparative and International Administration,” SICA/ASPA, 2008; “Don Stone” award, ASPA, for “outstanding services,” 2005; Rashtriya Viaks Shiromani (Distinguished National Development Scholar) Award, India, 2005, Mike Harder Public Administrator of the year, 2001 (Kansas), and a Senior Fulbright Fellowship, Summer, 1990.

Dr. Leslie A. Pal is the Founding Dean of the College of Public Policy. Professor Pal is the author, co-author, and editor of over 30 books. His most recent books include Global Governance and Muslim Organizations (2019) and Policy Transfer: Micro-Dynamics and Macro-Effects (2017). He is also the co-editor (with M. E. Tok and L. Al Khatar) of Policy Making in a Transformative State: The Case of Qatar (2016). The sixth edition of his textbook, Beyond Policy Analysis: Public Issue Management in Turbulent Times, is due out in 2020. He has published over 90 articles and book chapters in a wide variety of areas of public policy and administration, information technology, European integration, international human rights, and international public management reform. He has been a visiting professor at several universities, most recently the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (Singapore), the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia), the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA – Moscow), and the Higher School of Economics (Russia). He has served as a consultant to many Canadian government ministries and organizations, as well as conducting executive training. He has also served as a consultant to the World Bank and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), as well as several other international organizations. https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/cpp/staff/leslie-pal#:~:text=Pal%20is%20the%20Founding%20Dean,Macro%2DEffects%20(2017) Lepal@hbku.edu.qa

Associate Professor Makmor Tumin is a Political Scientist at the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Malaya, and has been serving at the institution since 1997. His works are on issues such as political thoughts, religion and politics, civil society, and social policies mainly on public health. He currently has nine books credited under his name, of which five of them deals with political thought, including one on feminism in Malaysia while another three on public health, focusing on organ donation and transplantation in this country. His works on social policy of public health have been published in many ISI and Scopus journals, collaborating with experts such as those from the Faculty of Medicine and the Academy of Islamic Studies. Currently, he is embarking his interdisciplinary work in issues on Religion and Politics with experts from Islamic Institutions, both local and international. His specific works on Islamic studies can be accessed through the following link: godconsciousness.info He has currently published 20 articles in ISI journals, 20 in Scopus journals, 23 in Non-(Scopus/ISI) journals, 13 book chapters, 21 book reviews and more than 100 printed media articles in magazines and newspapers. With eyesight that began to deteriorate at the age of 11, he enrolled in a blind school in 1983 before continuing his studies at the University of Malaya. Being blind, he is currently an Executive Board member of the ASEAN University Network – Disability and Public Policy (AUN-DPPnet). Besides that, he is also the Chief Editor for a People with Disabilities (PWD) Magazine (“Mainstreamer”), funded by the Nippon Foundation under AUN-DPPnet. https://umexpert.um.edu.my/makmor makmor@um.edu.my Associate Professor Makmor Tumin is a Political Scientist at the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Malaya, and has been serving at the institution since 1997. His works are on issues such as political thoughts, religion and politics, civil society, and social policies mainly on public health. He currently has nine books credited under his name, of which five of them deals with political thought, including one on feminism in Malaysia while another three on public health, focusing on organ donation and transplantation in this country. His works on social policy of public health have been published in many ISI and Scopus journals, collaborating with experts such as those from the Faculty of Medicine and the Academy of Islamic Studies. Currently, he is embarking his interdisciplinary work in issues on Religion and Politics with experts from Islamic Institutions, both local and international. His specific works on Islamic studies can be accessed through the following link: godconsciousness.info He has currently published 20 articles in ISI journals, 20 in Scopus journals, 23 in Non-(Scopus/ISI) journals, 13 book chapters, 21 book reviews and more than 100 printed media articles in magazines and newspapers. With eyesight that began to deteriorate at the age of 11, he enrolled in a blind school in 1983 before continuing his studies at the University of Malaya. Being blind, he is currently an Executive Board member of the ASEAN University Network – Disability and Public Policy (AUN-DPPnet). Besides that, he is also the Chief Editor for a People with Disabilities (PWD) Magazine (“Mainstreamer”), funded by the Nippon Foundation under AUN-DPPnet. https://umexpert.um.edu.my/makmor makmor@um.edu.my

Dr. Maria Victoria R. Raquiza is an Associate Professor of the National College of Public Administration and Governance (NCPAG), University of the Philippines Diliman, where she teaches courses on poverty, inequality, the developmental state and governance as well as on social policy. She received her MA degree in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands, where her thesis garnered a distinction award. Her PhD degree was obtained from the City University of Hong Kong where her dissertation problematized Philippine underdevelopment and the role of the state in promoting inclusive development at both economic and social spheres. Dr. Raquiza is Co-Convenor of Social Watch Philippines (SWP), an NGO advocating poverty eradication and community-centered sustainable development. She is also a Research Core Team Member of the Graduate School of Public and Development Management, Development Academy of the Philippines. mrraquiza@up.edu.ph

Dr. Meghna Sabharwal is a professor and program head in the public and nonprofit management program at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her research is focused on public human resources management, specifically workforce diversity, equity and inclusion, comparative HR, and high skilled immigration. She has published three books and over 55 peer reviewed journal articles and is the winner of four best paper awards. She has presented in over 200 national/international conferences and invited talks. Most recently her paper titled “Does the Public Service Motivation Model hold in the Caribbean?” published in the Review of Public Personnel Administration was awarded the 2022 Best Paper Award by the International Chapter, American Society of Public Administration. She is the recipient of the 2021 Outstanding Public HR scholar award by The Section on Personnel Administration and Labor Relations (SPALR), American Society of Public Administration. She is the current chair of the oldest section of ASPA, Section on International and Comparative Administration (SICA). She has chaired the Section of Women in Public Administration and the South Asian Section of Public Administration of ASPA. She is the recipient of two National Science Foundation grants to study reverse brain drain among Asian Indian STEM immigrants in academia and the industry. She is the Associate Editor for the Review of Public Personnel Administration and Public Integrity, and serves as an editorial board member on several leading public administration journals, including Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and Public Personnel Management. https://personal.utdallas.edu/~mxs095000/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2RNwgFwAAAAJ&hl=en mxs095000@utdallas.edu

Dr. Mohamed Tok is the Associate Professor and Program Coordinator for the MA program in Islam and Global Affairs at the College of Islamic Studies and the Assistant Dean for Innovation and Community Development. He has extensive experience in building disruptive mechanisms in education and learning in post-graduate studies. He is the founder of the first makerspace in Qatar Foundation, built around the concept of “Green Economies, Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship.’ Dr. Tok is also the Lead Project Investigator for a Qatar National Research Priorities Program on ‘Localizing Entrepreneurship Education in Qatar.’ etok@hbku.edu.qa

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Dr. Naresh Chandra Saxena has been a career civil servant. Topper of his batch (1964) in the IAS (Indian Administrative Service), Dr. Saxena retired as Secretary, Planning Commission in 2002. He also worked as Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development (1997-99) in Government of India. During 1993-96 he was Director, National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, which trains civil servants. On behalf of the Supreme Court of India, he monitored hunger based programmes in India from 2001 to 2017. He has chaired several government committees, such as on ‘Women’s Land Rights’, ‘Identification of poor families’, ‘Implementation of Forest Rights Act’, ‘Joint Review Mission on Elementary Education’ and ‘Bauxite Mining in Orissa’. Dr Saxena did his Doctorate in Forestry from the Oxford University in 1992. He was awarded honorary Ph.D from the University of East Anglia (UK) in 2006. He has worked on development issues in Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, East Timor, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and Afghanistan. He regularly advised UNICEF and UNDP between 2002 and 2017. He recently (2019) wrote a book, ‘What ails the IAS & why it fails to deliver? An insider’s view’, published by Sage. naresh.saxena@gmail.com

Dr. Nivedita Haran joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1980 and retired as the Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Home Affairs, Government of Kerala, India. She has served extensively in various capacities with the Government of Kerala as well as Government of India. She was also the Civil Affairs Officer for the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Kosovo for five years. She has worked through the ranks of Indian Administrative Services (IAS) leading Home, Revenue, Land Management, Energy, Labour and Institutional Capacity Building Initiatives in Kerala. She brought up the Disaster Management Department with the Hazard Vulnerability and Risk Assessment Cell and the State Disaster Management Authority in Kerala. She also headed the Delhi Division in Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India. She has a Ph.D. in Sociology from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India.

Ambassador Omar Samad is a non-resident Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center (since 2018), and CEO of Silkroad Consulting since 2013. He is a member of the intra-Afghan dialogue platform, Afghan Future Thought Forum (AFTF). Samad served as a Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to the Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation in 2021. In 2016, he resigned as Ambassador-designate to Belgium and the European Union. He was Senior Foreign Affairs Advisor to Afghanistan’s Chief Executive (2014-2016). He served as Ambassador of Afghanistan to France from 2009-11, and Ambassador to Canada from 2004-09. He was Spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry in Kabul (2002-04). Intermittently, Samad was Senior Afghan Expert in-residence at the US Institute of Peace, 2012-13, and as Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, 2013-14. He earned a master’s degree in international relations from the Fletcher School (Tufts University) in 2006, and a B.A. degree in Communications from the American University in 1991. He is a frequent contributor to Afghan and international media, has spoken at numerous conferences and written extensively since the 1980s. He recently wrote “The 2021 Collapse: Lessons Learned from a Century of Upheavals and Afghanistan’s Foreign Policy Vortex” in the edited book “The Great Power Competition – Vol. 4’, published by Springer.

Mr. Paul currently works in Ottawa as Director General of Planning, Operations and Information for the Canadian Forest Service (CFS), within Natural Resources Canada. He leads CFS activities related to planning, operations, forest knowledge, information management and technology. Previously at Fisheries and Oceans Canada he held executive positions in Information Management, Strategic Policy, Governance, Cabinet and Parliamentary Affairs, and Oceans Policy. Paul’s career as a public servant has also included positions with Transport Canada, the Privy Council Office and Global Affairs Canada. He holds an MA in Political Science from the University of Ottawa, an MPA from the Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University in the Netherlands, and BAs in International Development and English Literature from the University of Guelph. Paul has been an active Board Member of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada (National Capital Region) for more than a decade, and still loves to discuss public service. paul.gaskin@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca

Dr. Per Lægreid (1949) is professor in public administration and organization theory at the University of Bergen since 1992. He is currently heading the research group on “Political organization and multi-level governance” at the Department of Administration and Organization Theory. He has served as research director and is currently a part time senior researcher at Stein Rokkan Centre. He has also been the head of department and research leader at the Norwegian Research Centre in Organization and Management. He has been involved in several big research programs on administrative reforms and public administration in general in Norway such as the first and second Norwegian Power Study. In 2007 Lægreid was elected as a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letter. Lægreid has been central in international public administration research. He has been member of the board of the Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research (Scancor) at Stanford University. He is a visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School, has had fellowship at Karholike Universiteit in Leuven and has several times been visiting scholar at Stanford University. He has been co-editor of Scandinavian Political Studies,and is editorial member of several leading international journals. He is member of the governing board of the IPSA’s Research Committee on the Structure and Organization of Government (SOG). He has been co-chair of the EGPA Study Group on Performance in the Public Sector and is currently co-chair of the EGPA study group of Governance of Public Sector Organizations. Lægreid has a very comprehensive scientific production and has published extensively on public sector reform from a comparative perspective. His recent books have been published at Edward, Elgar, Ashgate, Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge and Universitetsforlaget. His recent journal articles have been published in Governance, Public Administration, Public Administration Review, Public Management Review, International Journal of Public Administration, Public Organization Review. A Global Journal, Public Performance & Management Review, International Public Management Journal, International Review of Administrative Science, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Financial Accountability and Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Policy and Politics. Scandinavian Political Studies and Nordiske Organisasjonsstudier. https://www.uib.no/en/persons/Per.L%C3%A6greid#uib-tabs-qualifications Per.Lagreid@uib.no

Dr. Rumki Basu is Senior Fellow and Head, Centre for Public Policy and Governance in the Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi. Formerly, she was Head & Professor of Public Administration in Jamia Millia Islamia (2005-2021). She was also the Director of the Centre for Jawaharlal Nehru Studies and the Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women’s Studies in Jamia. She has published 13 books, 26 articles and 18 book chapters on issues of Public Policy & Governance, International Organization, and the Political Economy of Development in India. She has presented papers in the World Congress of Political Science in Poznan (2016), Madrid (2012), Santiago (2009), Seoul (1997) and Berlin (1994) besides participating in International Workshops in South Asia and the Pacific Region. Her latest three books, Democracy and Public Policy in the Post Covid-19 World: Choices and Outcomes (2021), Public Administration in the 21st Century (2019) and Governance in South Asia (2017) have been published by Routledge, Francis and Taylor Group. She has received the Indian Council of Social Science Research Teacher Fellowship Award and the Bharat Jyoti Award in 2013 by the India International Friendship Society. She has also been a recipient of the Mary Hamilton Award – 2021 as recognition for the major contributions made to the field of International Public Administration by the American Society for Public Administration. mailtorumkibasu@gmail.com

Associate Professor Raja Noriza binti Raja Ariffin is currently the Director of International Institute of Public Policy and Management (INPUMA). She has a Bachelor’s Degree in City and Regional Planning from the University of Southwestern Lousiana, Lafayette, USA. She received her Master’s Degree from the California State University, Fresno, USA. In 2006 she completed her doctoral Degree in Planning at the University of Nottingham, UK. She has held several administrative and management positions at the faculty level, among others, Acting Dean, Deputy Dean (Undergraduate), and Head of Department at the Faculty of Economics and Administration. She was also the Coordinator for Postgraduate Diploma in Public Administration, a programme collaboration between the Faculty of Economics, Universiti Malaya and the National Institute of Public Administration (INTAN) in training the cadet of the Administrative and Diplomatic Services Scheme (PTD). At the university level, Raja Noriza has held the position of the Deputy Director of INPUMA. While at the national level, Raja Noriza has been appointed as Academic Advisor for Diploma in Public Administration, Faculty of Administrative Science and Policy Studies, University Teknologi MARA (UiTM) and External Examiner/Assessor for Universiti Tun Abdul Razak (UNIRAZAK). At the international level, she has been appointed as Associate Editor and Advisor of Faculty of Management Editorial Board at the Islamic University of Uganda. Her areas of expertise include policy analysis, transportation, urban governance, administration and urban planning. She has published widely in the area of public policy, healthcare and transportation. Raja Noriza sits on the editorial board of several journals, among others, Institutions and Economies, International Journal of China Studies and Journal of Policy & Governance. She has reviewed many manuscripts including those of WoS journal. She has also been appointed as evaluator of several research grant schemes. In term of supervision, Raja Noriza has successfully completed supervising more than 60 students including eight Doctoral Students. She has taught several subjects at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. Among the courses taught are Urban Management, Planning Administration and Community Development, Public Administration and Politics, Public Sector Management, Metropolitan Planning, Local Government and Industrial Relations. Raja Noriza is active in consultancy work. Among the consultancy work that have been completed are Study on Express Bus Demand and Supply in Peninsular Malaysia for Suruhanjaya Pengangkutan Awam Darat (SPAD), Study on Taxi Demand and Supply in 6 Urban Areas for Suruhanjaya Pengangkutan Awam Darat (SPAD), Traffic Impact Study for Majlis Bandaraya Petaling Jaya, The Plus Highway: A study on the Plus Factors for Users and the Economy for PLUS Sdn Bhd, and Laporan Sosial Malaysia for Institut Sosial Malaysia. https://umexpert.um.edu.my/rnoriza.html rnoriza@um.edu.my

Dr. Salahuddin M. Aminuzzaman is a senior Professor of Department of Public Administration, University of Dhaka. He also served as the Chair of Department of Development Studies, University of Dhaka. He is also the Program Adviser, South Asian Institute of Policy & Governance (SIPG), North South University. He has a long teaching experience of over three decades. He has worked as consultant for leading multi-lateral and bilateral development partners. Professor Aminuzzaman was a senior Fulbright Scholar. He has been visiting Professor to a number of European, and North American universities. He is a Member, Policy Advisory Group (PAG), Ministry of Local Government, Government of Bangladesh. He also sits in the Editorial Board, South Asian Journal of Policy and Governance. He has published a number of books, including among others: Governance in South, Southeast, and East Asia Trends, Issues and Challenges (2015), Governance at crossroads insights from Bangladesh (2013), Understanding Public Policy and Governance in Bangladesh (2012), Essential of Social Research (2012), Governance and Development: Bangladesh and Regional Experiences (2010). http://www.northsouth.edu/newassets/images/mppg/Dr.%20Salahuddin%20Aminuzzman.pdf saminuzzaman@gnail.com

Dr. Saltanat is doing research on public sector reforms in the post-Soviet Eurasia region. The topics of her research interest include the following: digital public services, open government, civil service and anti-corruption policies, and bureaucracy in an authoritarian context. Before joining the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol, she taught at the MPA/MPP programmes in the International Development Department, School of Government, University of Birmingham (UK) and Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan). For over a decade, she has provided policy advice based on her research in Central Asia to the OECD, UNDP, and EU. ed20631@bristol.ac.uk

Dr. Samina Quratulain is an Associate professor at the Department of Leadership and Organizational Agility in the College of Business and Economics. She received her doctorate degree in 2010 from Aix-Marseille university, France. Prior to the appointment at the UAEU, she was an Associate Professor at the University of Sharjah. Her research expertise lies in the fields of organizational behavior and human resource management, specifically in the areas of public service motivation, personality traits, job performance, job satisfaction, and supervisor-subordinate relationship. She has published articles in the top tier management journals such as Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Management, International Journal of Human Resource Management, International Journal of Hospitality Management and Review of Public Personnel Administration among others. She has presented in many national and international conferences. squratulain@uaeu.ac.ae

Dr. Sanjay K. Pandey is Shapiro Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration at Trachtenberg School, The George Washington University. Professor Pandey previously held faculty appointments at Rutgers University and the University of Kansas. Professor Pandey’s scholarship focuses on public policy and public administration, and deals with questions central to leading and managing public organizations. His other research interests are in mixed methods research design, health policy, nonprofit management, race and gender. Professor Pandey directed two landmark surveys of public organizations (Phase II and Phase IV of the National Administrative Studies Project). Professor Pandey is widely published in leading public management and administration journals and is an often-cited public administration scholar (Google Scholar Citations). At George Washington University, Professor Pandey, in collaboration with colleagues, has convened academic conferences bringing together leading academic researchers from US and abroad on the intersection of public management and nonprofit management, developing insights from behavioral public administration to address bureaucratic red tape and administrative burden, and on racial and gender equity in public policy and public administration. His scholarship has been recognized with numerous awards and his work has been included in leading collections. Two of his co-authored articles are included among the Public Administration Review’s 75 most influential articles (PAR 75 Most Influential Articles; a selection that includes contributions from eminent social scientists including Herbert Simon and Elinor Ostrom). Professor Pandey has served as editor of two books and six academic journal special issues/symposia, the most recent ones being on Race, Gender, and Social Equity; Behavioral Public Administration; and Nonprofit Management. He was awarded the *NASPAA/ ASPA* Distinguished Research Award in 2013, an award that “recognizes an individual’s research which has made substantial impact on the thought and understanding of public administration.” In 2014, Professor Pandey was elected a Fellow of the *National Academy of Public Administration* for sustained and excellent contributions to public administration. In 2022, Professor Pandey was honored by *Public Management Research Association (PMRA)* with the H. George Frederickson Award for Career Contributions to Public Management Research. In 2023, the *American Society for Public Administration (ASPA)* honored Professor Pandey with the Dwight Waldo Award for “outstanding contributions to the professional literature of public administration over an extended career”. skpandey@gwu.edu

Dr. Sezai OZTOP is Associate Professor at the Political Science and Public Administration Department of the Faculty of Political Sciences at Istanbul Medeniyet University, Kadıkoy/Istanbul, Turkiye. He is the chair of public policy department at the faculty. He is also editor of the Journal of Civilization Studies. He worked as assistant professor from 2014 to 2021 at Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University. He received his Ph.D. in public administration in 2014 from the Suleyman Demirel University in Isparta Turkiye, with his dissertation about the management of organizational change in public institutions. He completed his MPA in the administrative sciences department at Kocaeli University in 2007, with the thesis about the implementation of strategic management approach in municipalities. His field of interest is mainly focused on management and organization, strategic management, change management, and administrative sciences. Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com.tr/citations?user=gXFdDDEAAAAJ&hl sezai.oztop@medeniyet.edu.tr

Dr. Wolfgang Drechsler is Professor of Governance at TalTech’s Ragnar Nurkse Department, Honorary Professor of University College London in the Institute of Innovation and Public Purpose, and Associate and Member of the Advisory Board at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. At UCL, he is also PI of a large project on ‘Islamic Public Value’ (Templeton Foundation). Since 2020, he serves as chair of EAPAA, the European Association for Public Administration Accreditation. In civil service, he has been Advisor to the President of Estonia, Executive Secretary with the German Wissenschaftsrat, and, as an APSA Congressional Fellow, Senior Legislative Analyst in the United States Congress. His main interests are Non-Western Public Administration; Public Administration, Technology and Innovation; and Public Management Reform generally. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/wolfgang-drechsler wolfgang.j.m.drechsler@gmail.com

Dr. Wouter Van Dooren is a professor of public administration in the Research Group Politics & Public Governance and the Antwerp Management School. His research interests include public governance, performance information, accountability and learning, and productive conflict in public participation. He is member of the Urban Studies Institute and the GOVTRUST Centre of excellence. https://www.woutervandooren.eu/ wouter.vandooren@uantwerpen.be

Dr. Yang an assistant professor at the School of Government, Peking University. His research interests include political economy, public policy, and Chinese politics. His articles appeared in the British Journal of Political Science, Governance, Public Administration. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2021. https://www.sg.pku.edu.cn/szdw/zzjs/ggzcx1/1347304.htm wenhuiyang@pku.edu.cn

Dr. Yijia Jing is a Chang Jiang Scholar, Seaker Chan Chair Professor in Public Management, Dean of the Institute for Global Public Policy, and Professor of the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University. He got his BA/MA in Economics from Peking University, MA in Sociology from University of Maryland College Park, and Ph.D. in Public Policy from the Ohio State University. He conducts research on privatization, governance, and collaborative service delivery. He is founding editor-in-chief of the journal Global Public Policy and Governance and co-editor of International Public Management Journal. He is the founding co-editor of the Palgrave book series, Governing China in the 21 Century. https://igpp.fudan.edu.cn/igppen/c0/61/c20933a180321/page.htm jingyj@fudan.edu.cn

Dr. Edoardo Ongaro is Professor of Public Management at The Open University, UK. His expertise is in comparative public administration and the public policy-public administration nexus, and he is widely knowledgeable of public management reforms in Europe and other regions of the world. His research focuses contextual influences and adaptation of public management practices to local circumstances. He is Immediate Past President of EGPA (European Group for Public Administration), the leading learned society in Europe for public administration, public management and public governance studies, having served as EGPA President between 2013-2019. He is a Member of the Council of Administration of the International Institute of Administrative sciences (IIAS) and Vice President (International) of the UK Association for Public Administration (UKAPA). He has served in various academic and expert committees and has contributed to numerous international research projects. He is invited to present his research works in universities throughout the world as well as International Organisations like the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) or the World Bank, and the European Commission. He is editor of Public Policy and Administration, a journal of the UK Association for Public Administration (UKAPA). His works include: Religion and Public Administration: An Introduction (Elgar, 2023 – co-authored with Michele Tantardini); Strategic Management in Public Services Organizations: Concepts, Schools and Contemporary Issues (2022, 2nd edition, Routledge, co-authored with Ewan Ferlie); Philosophy and Public Administration: An Introduction (Elgar, 2020 – 2nd edition – also translated into Chinese, Italian and Spanish); Public Administration in Europe: The Contribution of EGPA (Palgrave, 2019, editor); The Palgrave Handbook of Public Administration and Management in Europe (Palgrave, 2018, co-edited with Sandra van Thiel); Multi-Level Governance: The Missing Linkages (Emerald, 2015 editor); and Public Management Reform and Modernization: Trajectories of Administrative Change in Italy, France, Greece, Portugal and Spain (2009, Elgar). Professor Ongaro holds a PhD from King's College London, an MPhil from The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and MSc/BSc from Politecnico di Milano. He speaks English, French, Italian and Spanish. Professor Ongaro is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences and of UKAPA, the UK Association for Public Administration.

Dr. Ellen Wayenberg is full professor at the Department of Public Governance and Management at Ghent University, Belgium. She specializes in public policy and administration with specific interest for policy dynamics and transitions, especially in local government and multi-level governance -settings. Over the last years, Ellen has published in highly-ranked journals such as European Policy Analysis, Local Government Studies, Policy & Politics, Policy Design and Practice and Public Administration Review and she has co-edited several special journal issues and international books including a special issue entitled ‘Beyond powering and puzzling : the political dimensions of policy learning’ (Journal of European Public Policy, 2024) and ‘New perspectives on intergovernmental relations – crisis and reform’ (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024). She is a co-founder and a co-chair of the EGPA Study Group IV on Regional and Local Governance and a member of the European Association for Public Administration Accreditation (EAPAA) –committee. Ellen started her academic career at the Public Management Institute of the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium where she successfully defended her PhD entitled ‘Changes in Flemish central-local relations: towards partnership?’ in 2004. From 2006 until 2012, she was Assistant-Professor at the Department of Business and Public Administration of the University College Ghent, Belgium and Guest-Professor at the Department of Political Sciences of Ghent University, Belgium. Since the merger of the University College into Ghent University, Ellen is a full-time professor at the latter institute. She has a doctorate in the Social Sciences (Catholic University of Leuven, 1998-2004) and Master in Political Sciences (Catholic University of Leuven, 1994-1998).