David Van Slyke
David
M. Van Slyke is Dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at
Syracuse University and the Louis A. Bantle Chair in Business-Government Policy.
Prior to becoming Dean on July 1, 2016, Van Slyke was Associate Dean and Chair
of Maxwell’s department of public administration and international affairs,
home to the country’s top-ranked graduate degree in public affairs. He is a
tenured, full professor of the Maxwell School and the College of Arts and
Sciences and a two-time recipient of the Birkhead-Burkhead Award and
Professorship for Teaching Excellence.
Van
Slyke is a leading international expert on public-private partnerships, public
sector contracting and contract management, and policy implementation. He is
Director and Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, a
co-editor of the Journal of Public
Administration Research and Theory and the Journal of Strategic Contracting and Negotiation. He also sits on
the editorial boards of several top-ranked public affairs journals. He has
provided expert guidance to the Office of Management and Budget, the Government
Accountability Office, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the World Bank. As part of his
work and research he has worked extensively with senior leaders in government,
nonprofit and business organizations in China, India, Peru, Singapore, Thailand
and many other countries through the Maxwell School’s Executive Education
program.
Van
Slyke’s most recent book, Complex
Contracting: Government Purchasing in the Wake of the U.S. Coast Guard's
Deepwater Program (Cambridge University Press, 2013) is the recipient of
the American Society for Public Administration Section on Research Best Book
Award for 2014 and honorable mention for the Public and Nonprofit Section of
the Academy of Management best book award for 2016. He is winner of the 2015
Distinguished Alumnus in Public Administration and Policy award from the
Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy and the 2007 Beryl Radin Award
for Best Article published in the Journal
of Public Administration Research and Theory.
Van Slyke earned a Ph.D. in public administration and policy
from the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University at
Albany, State University of New York. Prior to becoming an academic, he worked
in the private, public and nonprofit sectors.