Speaker:
Dr. Scott Fritzen
Associate Professor, Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington
Chair:
Dr. Cheng Wenhao
Professor, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University
Date and Time:
Monday 16th November 2015
1:30 – 2:40 PM
Venue:
Room 321, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University
Lecture Synopsis:
Leaders in the public sector must create value through an active and strategic process of mission definition, stakeholder management and capacity development. This challenge is made much more difficult in times of crisis. This talk presents a framework for strategic management, and explores it using the dramatic case of Hurricane Katrina in the US in 2005.
Speaker Biography:
Scott Fritzen is Associate Professor at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington. He previously served as Associate Provost, and Associate Professor of Public Policy, at New York University Shanghai; as Dean / Interim Dean for the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University; and as Vice Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (National University of Singapore). His teaching and research center on two themes: professional policy education and public sector reforms in developing countries, with a particular interest in the challenges of corruption control and decentralization. He serves as managing editor of the International Review of Public Administration and on the editorial board of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis. His consulting practice since 1994 in Asia has included over 40 assignments – most of which as team leader – for clients such as the World Bank, UNDP and Oxfam.
