The following faculty are listed in the order that they participate in the program:

Larry Schroeder  

Dr. Larry Schroeder is a Professor of public administration and a Senior Research Associate at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Dr. Schroeder is a public finance economist with a keen interest in state and local government finance, fiscal decentralization, inter-governmental fiscal transfers and relations. He has an extensive body of research on these subjects and has co-authored several books and authored articles in these areas of study. Dr. Schroeder is one of the most experienced faculty members at the Maxwell School with over twenty years of outstanding teaching experience both in the United States and internationally. Professor Schroeder has a Ph.D in Economics from University of Wisconsin (1971) and has also served as faculty at Georgia State University and Indiana University. In 1998-99 he was a Visiting Professor at Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang Malaysia and was a Visiting Research Fellow at the National College of Public Administration and Governance at the University of the Philippines (Diliman Campus) in Quezon City, Philippines in 2005-06.  Professor Schroeder was awarded the chair of Maxwell Professor of Teaching Excellence between 2003 – 2006, as well as the prestigious Birkhead/Burkhead Teaching Excellence award from 2002 – 2006. During the same time, Dr. Schroeder also won university wide recognition by being awarded the Syracuse University Excellence in Graduate Education Faculty Recognition Award, 2005. Besides teaching, Dr. Schroeder also works in advisory capacity to various international and multilateral organizations and governments. He has provided consulting expertise on various projects funded by the United States Agency for International Development, the World Bank, and the United Nations Capital Development Fund in numerous countries, especially in South and Southeast Asia, but also in Africa and Eastern Europe.    

Yilin Hou

Dr. Yilin Hou is an associate professor of public administration and policy at the School of Public and International Affairs, the University of Georgia, USA. He conducts research in public financial management and budgeting, government administration, and public administration theory. His research has focused on counter-cyclical fiscal policy at sub-national levels, public budgeting reform and governance capacity, and strategic government management. He has also been examining comparative public finance and budgeting with an emphasis on transitional countries. His research has appeared in academic journals like Public Finance Review, Public Budgeting and Finance, Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and American Review of Public Administration, as well as some scholarly books. He has also co-edited several academic books published in China.

Dr. Hou has won several awards and recognitions for his research. In 2002, he won an Outstanding Dissertation Award from Syracuse University where he got his Ph.D. degree in public administration. He got the James E. Webb Award for the most outstanding paper presented at the 2003 annual conference of the American Society for Public Administration, and the Best Paper Award from the American Review of Public Administration in 2003. 

Dr. Hou teaches public finance, public budgeting, budgetary policy and fiscal policy, financial management, and doctoral seminar in public budgeting at the School of Public and International Affairs, the University of Georgia. He also advises doctoral students in these areas.

Dr. Hou worked through the renowned Government Performance Project (GPP, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts) at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University from 1998 to 2002, first as research assistant, then as coordinator and faculty expert of the financial management subsystem.

Dr. Hou, together with a few other Chinese scholars in the U.S., created the China-America Association for Public Affairs (CAAPA), a small, research-focused group of Chinese-American scholars. With the Board of CAAPA, Dr. Hou has been running the Association in the past few years to bring together scholars in the U.S. and China to study transformation of systems from the old to new regimes.

Dr. Hou maintains regular presence in the Chinese academic community. He serves concurrently as co-editor of the Journal of Public Management Research published by the Sun Yat-sen University Press in Guangzhou China. He is conducting a research project on the reform of the Chinese financial administration system.

William Duncombe

Dr. William Duncombe is a Professor of Public Administration, Associate Director of the Education Finance and Accountability Program, and Senior Research Associate at the Center for Policy Research at the Maxwell School. Professor Duncombe received his Ph.D from the Maxwell School in 1989. His research areas include education finance and aid, public finance and economic development including measuring financial management performance, and elder migration and preferences. Dr. Duncombe has authored a book and written over 60 papers and book chapters on these issues with a particular focus on public finance and expenditure. Professor Duncombe has won several grants from the government and various foundations to conduct his insightful research and developed new models related to education policy. Dr. Duncombe has also won several teaching excellence awards for his years of teaching. In 2006, he won the Leslie A Whittington Excellence in Teaching Award, awarded by the United States National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. His popularity and effectiveness in teaching is also demonstrated through various teaching excellence awards such as the Excellence in Graduate Education Faculty Recognition Award, 2006, Syracuse University and the Birkhead-Burkhead Teaching Excellence Award and Professorship in 2001-2005. He also won the Robert T. Golembiewski Award for outstanding achievement in Public Administration, which is awarded by MPA students, at University of Georgia in 1991.

Mehrzad Beroujerdi

Dr. Mehrzad Boroujerdi is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Maxwell School. Professor Boroujerdi is the founding  Director of  the university’s Middle Eastern Studies Program, and he is also the co-director of the Religion, Media, and International Relations program. A Ph.D in International Relations from The American University and a Middle East regional expert, his areas of research focus on Middle East politics, comparative politics, religion and politics, and social theory. He is the general editor of the Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East series published by Syracuse University Press and served for seven years (2000 to 2007) as the book review editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies. His research is widely published across various journals such as the Bulletin of the Center for Iranian Research and Analysis, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Critique: Journal for Critical Studies of the Middle East; Foreign Service Journal, Iranian Journal of International Affairs, International Third World Studies Journal and Review, Journal of Peace Research, Middle East Economic Survey, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, Syracuse Law Review and various  edited  books and Persian-language journals. He has also authored the book Iranian Intellectuals and the West: The Tormented Triumph of Nativism which has been translated to Persian and Turkish.   Professor Boroujerdi has served as a fellow at the Harvard University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies and a Rockefeller Foundation fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Boroujerdi was awarded the Maxwell School's Daniel Patrick Moynihan Award for outstanding teaching, research, and service by a junior faculty member in 1997 - 1998. Professor Boroujerdi provides advisory services to various organizations such as the Academy for Educational Development, College Board, Educational Testing Services, Human Rights Watch, InterMedia Survey Institute, and Risk Analysis Group and presently serves as an adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute (MEI) in Washington, D.C.

Alastair Roberts

Dr. Alasdair Roberts is a professor of public administration and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Constitution Unit, of the School of Public Policy of University College London. A Ph.D from Harvard University, Professor Roberts has a tremendous body of research having been awarded several fellowship positions at leading research institutions such as the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Open Society Institute. Widely published, he serves on the board of editors for various public administration journals. Professor Roberts has two major areas of interest – public sector restructuring and transparency in government. Dr. Roberts published an award winning book on transparency of government in the information age which won many accolades such as the 2006 Louis Brownlow Book Award from the National Academy of Public Administration, the 2007 book award from the Section on Public Administration Research of the American Society for Public Administration, the 2007 Best Book Award of the Academy of Management's Public and Nonprofit Division, and the 2007 Charles Levine Memorial Book Prize of the International Political Science Association's Research Committee on the Structure of Governance. He has recently authored another book on decreasing popularity of Bush, and reduced authority in American government. Professor Roberts also served as the director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute from 2001 to 2006. Prior to joining the Maxwell School Dr. Roberts taught in the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University, Canada. He has also held visiting appointments at Georgetown University's Graduate Public Policy Institute and at the University of Southern California's Washington Public Affairs Center. In July, Professor Roberts will be taking the position as the first Rappaport Chair of Law and Public Policy at Suffolk University Law School.  

David Van Slyke 

Dr. Van Slyke is an Associate Professor of Public Administration and a senior research associate in the Campbell Institute of Public Affairs at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He has a Ph.D. in Public Administration and Policy from the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy of the University at Albany, State University of New York. Prior to his appointment as Maxwell faculty, Professor Van Slyke served as faculty at the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies of Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University where he was the Director of Nonprofit Studies Program (2001-2004). Dr. Van Slyke also worked in the private sector for twelve years prior to teaching in the areas of project management, especially in the area of government contracts and public-private partnerships. Based on his extensive professional experience, his research is focused on public and nonprofit management and reform, privatization and public-private partnerships, contracting and contract management, policy implementation, strategic management, and philanthropy. Professor Van Slyke also provides advisory and academic support in these areas to various United States government agencies as well as international governments. He is also a member of the transnational NGO project based out of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs. Dr. Van Slyke is an extremely popular faculty member demonstrated by his being awarded the most recent (2006) Birkhead-Burkhead Professor of Teaching Excellence. 

George Abonyi

Dr. George Abonyi, is Visiting Professor, Dept. of Public Administration and Executive Education Program, Maxwell School, Syracuse University; and Senior Advisor, Fiscal Policy Research Institute (FPRI), Ministry of Finance, Thailand. In a 25 year association with Asia (including 20 years based in Asia, primarily in Thailand and also Singapore), Dr. Abonyi has held senior advisory positions with governments, corporations, and international institutions– including with the Asian Development Bank since 1992; as well as senior academic and research positions, and has lectured/published/commented widely on Asian issues. 

John Palmer

Dr. John Palmer is the Dean Emeritus and a distinguish University Professor (only the seventh such appointment in Syracuse University) at the Maxwell School. He was dean, and professor of economics and public administration of the Maxwell School during 1988 to 2003 and responsible for academic and administrative leadership of the University's social science disciplinary departments, undergraduate and graduate programs in public and international affairs, and several interdisciplinary research centers and institutes.  Under his leadership, the Maxwell School’s Public Administration program has been continuously ranked as the number one graduate program in public affairs across the United States. A Ph.D from Stanford University in 1965, he also served as economics faculty member at the university prior to being appointed as a senior economist with the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in the 1970s. Prior to joining Maxwell he held several other positions both in and out of government, including senior fellow of the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, assistant secretary for planning and evaluation of the Department of Health and Human Services, and adjunct professor of Harvard University.  Throughout his career Dean Palmer has written and consulted extensively on a wide range of economic, budgetary, and social policy concerns. His publications include 13 books and more than 50 professional and popular articles. He has testified before the United States Congress on many occasions, been a consultant to numerous government agencies, universities, and private foundations and an officer of several national professional associations, and served on various committees of the National Academy of Sciences’ National Research Council and the Social Science Research Council. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and past president of the National Academy of Social Insurance and member of the Visiting Committee of the Brookings Institution. 

Rosemary O’Leary

Dr. Rosemary O’Leary is the Distinguished Professor of Public Administration, Senior Research Associate of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute, Senior Research Associate of the Center for Environmental Policy and Administration, and the Co-Director, Program for the Analysis and Resolution of Conflict at the Maxwell School. Professor O’Leary is one of the most versatile faculty members with multi-sectoral research on Public Management, Environmental Policy, Dispute Resolution, and Law. She has authored or edited six books and over a hundred articles. She has won nine national research awards, including Best Book in Public and Nonprofit Management for 2000 (given by the Academy of Management), Best Book in Environmental Management and Policy for 2005 and 1999 (given by the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA)), and the Mosher Award, which she won twice, for best article by an academician published in Public Administration Review.  Her research has been funded by the Hewlett Foundation (9 years), the International City/County Management Association, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the American Bar Association, and the IBM Center for the Business of Government. She is the only person to win three awards from the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA): Distinguished Research (2004), Excellence in Teaching (1996), and Best Dissertation (1989). In 2003, O'Leary was awarded the Syracuse University Chancellor's Citation for Exceptional Academic Achievement, the highest research award at the university. She has won eight teaching awards and was the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award given by ASPA's Section on Environment and Natural Resources Administration. Dr. O'Leary has served as national chair of the Public Administration Section of the American Political Science Association, and as the national chair of the Section on Environment and Natural Resources Administration of ASPA. From 2003-2005, O’Leary was a member of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Return to Flight Task Group assembled in response to the Columbia space shuttle accident.  In 2004, she also served as a member of NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel.  O'Leary has worked as a consultant to the U.S. Department of the Interior, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution, the National Science Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences, the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, and the International City/County Management Association.  She has worked as an attorney and as an administrator in Kansas state government.

Dr. Mary E. Lovely

Dr. Mary E. Lovely is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Maxwell School.  A Ph.D in Economics from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and Masters in City and Regional Planning from Harvard University, Professor Lovely’s research focus is on areas related to international and public economics.  Widely published, Professor Lovely has written on labor market effects of international trade, welfare effects of free trade zones, determinants of China’s foreign direct investment and the link between trade and the environment.  Dr. Lovely has been awarded the title of Maxwell Professor of Teaching Excellence for 2004-2007.  Professor Lovely also served as a Pew Faculty Fellow at Harvard University and based on her experience her pedagogical approach is case study based.  She has written or supervised the creation of teaching cases in international affairs, education policy, and citizenship.  She received the Economics Department Undergraduate Teaching Award in 1996 and served as Economics Undergraduate Director from 1997 to 2000 and 2006-2009. 

Catherine Gerard

Soonhee Kim 

Soonhee Kim is an Associate Professor of Public Administration in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University and a Senior Research Associate in the Campbell Institute of Public Affairs.  A native of Cheongjoo, South Korea, Kim holds a bachelor’s degree in public administration from Ewha Women’s University; M.P.A. degrees from Korea University and the Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University at Albany; and a Ph.D. in public administration from the University at Albany. Kim’s research and teaching interests include public management, human resources management, electronic government, and leadership development.  Her articles appear in a number of journals, including Public Administration Review, American Review of Public Administration, Review of Public Personnel Administration, Public Performance and Management Review, Public Personnel Management, Journal of Public Affairs Education, and Asian Journal of Women’s Studies.  Her current research projects examine a governance capacity model for enhancing transparency in local governance, trust in government, knowledge management, and leadership development in local governments.

Peter Wilcoxin

Dr. Peter Wilcoxen is an Associate Professor of Economics and Public Administration and the Director of Center for Environmental Policy and Administration at the Maxwell School. Professor Wilcoxen is a Ph.D in Economics from Harvard University and has a vast experience in both teaching and research. Dr. Wilcoxen’s research focuses on the dynamics between climate change, environmental economics, and public policy. In relation to this Professor Wilcoxen has worked with other renowned economists to develop various economic models such as the multi-sector, multi-country, and inter-temporal general equilibrium model of world economy (G-Cubed), and the links to information and initiatives related to environmentally-friendly residential construction (IGEM).  Due to his overlapping interest and extensive research related to the environment and economics, Professor Wilcoxen also served as the Syracuse University-State University of New York of Environmental Science and Forest Joint Environmental Initiative, Co-Chair, 2006-2007. Prior to teaching at Maxwell, Dr. Wilcoxen taught at the University of Texas, Austin and has also served as a visiting scholar at Harvard University, and the University of Melbourne. Professor Wilcoxen is currently also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution (a world renowned think tank) since 1995, where he earlier served as a visiting research Fellow. Dr. Wilcoxen’s experience has won him a large degree of recognition and he has worked on various projects with the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy. Dr. Wilcoxen is an extremely popular faculty member and has won several awards recognizing his excellence in teaching such as the Allyn Young Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Harvard University, Rapoport-King Award for supervising an outstanding honors student, University of Texas, Fall 1993, and the Birkhead-Burkhead Teaching Excellence Award and Professorship, Syracuse University, 2007-2011.