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Rodney Brooke is Senior Visiting Fellow at the School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham; Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London; and a Freeman of the City of London. He was formerly Chief Executive of West Yorkshire County Council and of Westminster City Council; Secretary of the Association of Metropolitan Authorities, Chairman of Bradford District Health Authority and a consultant with Ernst and Young. He was appointed CBE in 1996 and holds the Order of Merit of France and Germany
Colin Campbell is University Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. From 1990 to 1998 he served as Director of the Georgetown Public Policy Institute. Campbell has authored or coauthored eight books which between them have won four national awards in the United States. The most recent is The U.S. Presidency in Crisis which won the 1999 Levine Prize for the best book in the areas of comparative public policy and administration. Campbell was founding co-editor of the journal Governance and founding co-chairman of the Structure and Organization of Government Research Committee of the International Political Science Association. In 1999 he was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. His current research has focused on Corporate Strategic Planning in the U.S. Air Force.
Richard A. Chapman is Emeritus Professor of Politics, University of Durham. He previously taught at Carle ton University in Canada and the Universities of Leicester, Liverpool and Birmingham; before that he was a civil servant. He was Chairman of the Public Administration Committee (PAC) of the Joint University Council 197781. His most recent book is The Treasury in Public Policy Making (Routledge, 1997). In 1999 he was elected a founding Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences (Ac.S.S.).
Anthony B.L. Cheung is Head and Associate Professor of the Department of Public and Social Administration at the City University of Hong Kong. An ex-civil servant, a former Hong Kong legislator and a specialist in public administration, he has published extensively in books and articles on privatization, civil service and public sector reforms, and government and politics in Hong Kong and China. His recent books are Public Sector Reform in Hong Kong (co-edited with Jane Lee) (The Chinese University Press, 1995) and The Civil Service in Hong Kong: Continuity and Change (coauthored with Ahmed Shafiqul Huque and Grace Lee) (Hong Kong University Press, 1998).
Susan Corby is a Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management at the University of Greenwich. She has published widely on various aspects of industrial relations in the civil service and the National Health Service, in both of which fields she was previously a full-time union offficial, and on equal opportunities in the public services. Her book, co-edited with Geoff White, Employee Relations in the Public Services was published by Routledge in 1999.
Michael Hunt is a Principal Lecturer in Public Administration at Sheffield Hallam University. He has particular research interests in open government and in ethics, and these form the principal focus of his publications. He was joint editor with Richard A. Chapman of Open Government: A study of the prospects of open government within the limitations of the British political system (Croom Helm, 1987) and, with Barry J. OToole, of Reform, Ethics and. Leadership in Public Sendee: A Festschrift in Honour of Richard A. Chapman (Ashgate, 1998). He has edited Teaching Public Administration since 1993.
Barry J. OToole is Reader in Politics at the University of Glasgow. From 1991 until 2000 he was Editor of the PAC journal Public Policy and Administration . He has written widely on ethics in public sendee and his publications include: Private Gain and Public Sendee (Routledge, 1989); The Next Steps: Improving Management in Government ? (edited with Grant Jordan) (Dartmouth, 1995); and Reform, Ethics and Leadership in Public Service (edited with Michael Hunt) (Ashgate, 1998). His 1990 Public Administration article on T.H. Green and the Ethics of Senior Officials in British central government has been reprinted twice in edited collections.
Martin Painter is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Government and Public Administration, University of Sydney, where he teaches courses on public policy analysis and public sector management. His current research interests include intergovernmental relations in federal systems and public sector reform. His books include Politics Between Departments (1979), Steering the Modern State (1987), Managerialism: the Great Debate (1997) and Collaborative Federalism (1998).
B. Guy Peters is Maurice Falk Professor of Government at the University of Pittsburgh and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde. His recent publications include The Future of Governing and The Neiu Institutionalism in Political Science .
Lawrence Pritchett is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Public Policy, De Montfort University, Leicester, where he specialises in local government research. He has written widely on local government and democracy, and is co-author (with David Wilson) of Local Democracy and. Local Government (Macmillan, 1996) and editor of Reviewing Local Democracy? The Modernisation agenda in British Local Government (Frank Cass, 1999). He is also convenor of the Urban Politics Specialist Group for the Political Studies Association.
John A. Rohr is Professor of Public Administration at the Center for Public Administration and Policy at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He has written and lectured extensively on questions of ethics and constitutionalism in public service.
George J. Szablowski is Member of the Bar of Quebec and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science, York University, Toronto, Canada. His research and professional interests are in the fields of international human rights, judicial review, and European integration. He is the author of numerous publications and, most recently, co-author of Final Appeal: Decision-Making in Canadian Courts of Appeal (James Lorimer, Toronto, 1998).
