David M. Van Slyke
Dean
Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs
Louis A. Bantle Chair in Business-Government Policy
Degree
Ph.D., Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1999
Specialties
Public and nonprofit management, government contracting, public-private partnerships, policy implementation, strategic management
Courses
PAI 785 Policy Implementation
PAI 996 DCP EMPA Master's Project Course
Biography
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. 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, public and nonprofit management, and
policy implementation. He is Director (2016-Present) and Fellow of the National
Academy of Public Administration, a member of the National Academy of Public
Administration’s Expert Advisory team for the Office of the Inspector General
at the Department of Homeland Security, a former member of the Defense Business
Board, and a former co-editor of the Journal
of Public Administration Research and Theory and the Journal of Strategic Contracting and Negotiation. He is actively engaged in the Network of Schools of Public
Policy, Affairs, and Administration, the Association of Professional
Schools of International Affairs, and the University Leadership Council on
Diversity and Inclusion in International Affairs Education. He also sits on the
editorial boards of several top-ranked public affairs and nonprofit management journals.
He has provided expert guidance to the Office of Management and Budget, the
Government Accountability Office, the U.S. Coast Guard, the Department of
Defense, the World Bank, and a range of philanthropic foundations. As part of
his executive education teaching and research he has worked extensively with
senior leaders in government, nonprofit, and business organizations in China,
India, Peru, Russia, Singapore, and Thailand.
Van Slyke’s
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 at the University at Albany, and the 2007 Best Article Award 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.