FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, September 28, 2007

Maxwell Professors Bretschneider and Roberts Elected NAPA Fellows

Public Administration Professors Stuart Bretschneider and Alasdair Roberts have been elected Fellows of the National Academy of Public Administration. 

NAPA is an independent, nonpartisan organization chartered by Congress to assist federal, state, and local governments in improving their effectiveness, efficiency, and accountability. NAPA Fellows are selected based on their sustained contributions to the field of public administration through public service or scholarship; they include current and former Cabinet officers, members of Congress, Governors, Mayors, state legislators, diplomats, business executives, local public managers, foundation executive, and scholars.  These Fellows serve as the cornerstone of the academy and provide insight and experience as they oversee Academy projects and provide general guidance to the organization. 

Bretschneider chairs the Maxwell School’s Department of Public Administration and is director of the Maxwell School’s Center for Technology and Information Policy.  He was responsible for first integrating computer and information management into Maxwell’s public administration program.  Bretschneider has published dozens of articles in journals including Management Science, Information Systems Review, Public Administration Review, and Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.  He was director and past president of the International Institute of Forecasting and served as associate editor for the International Journal of Forecasting. Bretschneider was also managing editor of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.  He has been a consultant to the U.S. General Accounting Office; the states of New York, Ohio and Kentucky; and several Fortune 500 companies. 

Roberts is the author of Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age (Cambridge University Press, 2006).  He is a member of the board of editors of Public Administration Review, Public Management Review, the Journal of Public Administration Research and Teaching, International Public Management Journal, as well as other journals.  He serves on the Transparency Task Force of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue and is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow of the School of Public Policy, University College London. He has been a fellow of the Open Society Institute, New York (2000-2001) and the Wilson International Center for Scholars (1999-2000).