List of Members 2010-2013 :

President

Pan Suk Kim, President of IIAS, is a South Korean citizen, who holds a Ph.D., master, and bachelor degree in public administration. He is currently Director of the Institute for Poverty Alleviation and International Development (IPAID) at Yonsei University as well as full Professor of Public Administration in the College of Government and Business at Yonsei University in South Korea.

He has been Secretary to the President for Personnel Policy in the Office of the President of Korea (the so-called Blue House). He has broad experience as an expert in governmental affairs, having served as a member of the Administrative Reform Committee (ARC) and a working member of the Presidential Commission on Government Innovation (PCGI) in the Korean central government. He was also on the Policy Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT), the Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs (MOGAHA), the Civil Service Commission (CSC), and various public advisory bodies and committees. After completing his Ph.D. degree in public administration at the American University in Washington DC, he was an assistant professor at Old Dominion University in Virginia and Austin Peay State University in Tennessee for several years. He also has considerable international experience, having served on the National Council of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) and the Executive Board of the ASPA Section for Professional and Organizational Development (SPOD).He is currently a member of the UN Committee of Experts on Public Administration (UN/CEPA). 

Past President

Franz Strehl (Austria)

Franz Strehl holds a doctorate in economic and social sciences, but also  has a Master's degree in Business Administration. He is the first President to hold an MBA. Professor of Strategic Management (Institute for International Management Studies) at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, he served as Rector of the University from 1995 to 2000, during which time he led a major change-programme. He has been involved in the IIAS for many years and in particular, chaired our Research Advisory Council from its inception. Franz was educated in Austria (Linz), Belgium (Brussels – ULB) and the USA (Dallas).

Vice-Presidents

Latin America - Senior Vice-President

Host Country

Philippe Bouvier (Belgium)

Mr. Bouvier is Auditor General of the State Council. Guest lecturer at the Catholic University of Louvain, Vice-President of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences  and Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Public Administration and the Regional Review of Law. It is also the author of several publications on administrative law, including a book on "elements of administrative law".

Africa

Mustapha Taimi (Morroco)

Mustapha Taimi is director of the Morrocan National school of Administration

 East Asia

Jiang Wu (Chine)

Professor Jiang Wu, member of the National Commitee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), President of the Chinese Academy of Personnel Science, honorary professor of China National School of Administration and doctoral supervisor of the College of Administration of Jilin University, Vice-president of China Administration Society, and Vice-president of China Organisation and Establishment Research Society. Before his current position, he also served as deputy Director of research Office of the Central Organisation Department, Deputy Chief Editor of Party Contruction Publishing House, Dean of Public Administration Department of China National School of Administration.  

Dr Witold Mikulowski is Vice-President  of  the (Polish)  Association for Public Administration Education and Head of Public Administration and Management Unit of the Academy of Lodz and (Warsaw Branch)  and lecturer at the National School of Public Administration in Warsaw.  During his long professional carrier he was combining  research, higher education and civil service  training activities in Poland and in France  with international expertise and consulting activities in UN and EU administrative reform projects in Africa, South-East  and Central Asia and in East Europe. From 1980 he is constantly involved in the IIAS (from 1988 as individual member), IASIA, EGPA and NISPAcee activities.    


 

Middle East

Essam S. Al-Rubaian (Kuweit)

Dr. Essam S.AL-Rubaian is associate professor in Public Administration. He was named General Secretary of Kuweit University where he worked from 2003 until 2007. Dr.AL-Rubaian published numerous contributions on the subjet of public services and government performances.

North America

To be confirmed

South Asia and the Pacific

Akira Nakamura (Japon)

Akira Nakamura was born and raised in Osaka, Japan. After he finished college, he left for the United States where he received a B.A. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley (1966) and a PhD in political science from the University of Southern California (1973).  After having returned to Japan he began teaching public administration at Meiji University in downtown Tokyo where he is currently Dean of the Graduate School. He is also President of Japanese Society for Local Government Studies. Over the years he has published extensively in both Japanese and English, addressing such subjects as Japanese central bureaucracy and local public management. Lately, he has become extremely interested in the governance issue and has published articles and books on this topic in Japanese and English. He was the first Asian to head the IIAS Programme and Research Advisory Committee.

Western Europe

Werner Jann (Germany)

Professor of political science, administration and organization at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Potsdam, he studied political sciences, mathematics and economics at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He was a Research assistant at the College of Administrative SciencesSpeyer (1982), He was Congressional Fellow in Washington DC, a research assistant at the University of California, Berkeley, and a public servant in Prime Minister's Office in Kiel (1989-1993) . He also worked as a consultant for the Parliament as well as the federal and national German government, the OECD and the EU and is a member of the Advisory Committee of Experts on Public Administration of the UN. He has published on  administration and comparative public policy, administrative culture and modernisation of the public sector, mainly of the central government.  

Chairperson, Finance Committee

Dieter Schimanke (Germany)

Dieter Schimanke is a highly experienced senior expert in the fields of public administration and reforms of public administration with an academic and practical background. Born in 1944 he has studied law and administrative science and became Professor in Public Administration at the Helmut-Schmidt-University in Hamburg/Germany in the year 1981. Furthermore he has worked in different institutions in the German public administration for more than 15 years (on the central and regional level). From 1994 until 2002 he has built up – in the function as Secretary of State - the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs in a state in Eastern Germany after unification and implemented reform issues. Since 2002 he is working in projects on reform of public administration in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, mainly in PHARE- and TACIS-projects. In the years 2005 and 2006 he has worked as senior expert in the TACIS-project on ‘Support to Institutional and Financial Management in the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection’ in Dushanbe/Tajikistan with elaborating a functional review and proposals for structural reforms on the central, oblast and rayon level. Furthermore, he has given lectures on civil service reform and HRM in seminars of a TACIS-project in Dushanbe/Tajikistan. In Bulgaria and Kosovo he has trained (coached) the higher levels of staff in the Ministries of Interior on public management skills. At present, he is working as senior expert and acting as project coordinator in an Ukrainian-German project on reform of public administration of Ukraine; this includes a new curriculum for a Master of Public Administration (MPA) at the National Academy for Public Administration.

He is Vice-President of the German Section of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences, Brussels, and working there on issues of comparative public administration.

Chairperson, Programe and Research Advisory Committee

Geert Bouckaert (Belgium)

Professor Geert Bouckaert is the Director of the Public Management Institute, Catholic University of Leuven.

He graduated from the Catholic University of Leuven with degrees in Business Administration (1980), Political Science (1983) and Philosophy (1984). He received a PhD in Social Sciences in 1990 (Public Management Centre, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Leuven). He taught at the University of Twente, Netherlands, the University of Potsdam and the Hochschule für Verwaltungswissenschaften, Speyer, Germany. He was appointed Adviser to the Government of Finland (1999-2000), the Flemish Government for the modernization program (1992-1998), to the OECD for the "Performance, Accountability and Control" (1992-1993), and "Quality in the Public Sector" (1994) projects. He is a Member of the Scientific Council of the French Review of Public Administration, ENA, Paris (2003), Member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Public Management and Economic Development at the French Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry (2002) and Member of Scientific Committee of EPAN (2002). In 2003, he received the Tocqueville Award of EIPA. Geert Bouckaert has published numerous articles mainly on administrative reforms.

Vice-Chairperson, Programe and Research Advisory Committee:

Katju Hölkeri (Finland)

Katju Holkeri is a financial counsellor at the Ministry of Finance’s Public Management Department in Finland. Currently she works as Head of Governance Policy Unit. She is also a vice chair if the OECD’s Public Governance Committee.

President of the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration (IASIA):

Valeria Termini (Italy)

Valeria Termini is Professor of Economics at the University of Roma Tre and member of  the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration (CEPA).

President of the European Group for Public Administration (EGPA):  

Wim van de Donk (Netherlands)

Prof. Wim van de Donk PhD (1962) holds a Masters Degree in Political Science and Administrative Sciences from the Radboud University in Nijmegen. He was appointed as the Queens Commissioner in the Province of Noord-Brabant from October 1st 2009. He also is professor at Tilburg University.
Before he was nominated as the Queens Commissioner he served as Chairman of the Scientific Council for Government Policy (www.wrr.nl) and as a professor in the Tilburg School for Politics and Public Administration, Faculty of Law, Tilburg University.  He holds a PhD from Tilburg University (1997, cum laude) and earlier on served in the Dutch Ministry of Justice and the Expertise Centre for Government Informatics in The Hague.
He served as chairman/member of several advisory commitees: good governance of charities (2007); the audit commitee of the Dutch Public Broadcast (2005); the core-values of the constitutional state (2008); the future of Dutch drugs policy (2009); the council for the social sciences of the Dutch Royal Academy of Science. He  was chairman/member of the Board of the St. Elisabeth Hospital in Tilburg and of an institution for vocational training in Tilburg. He is president of the European Group for Public Administration (EGPA Brussels) since september 2010.

Editor-in-chief of the International Review of Administrative Sciences (IRAS) 

Christopher Pollitt (United Kingdom)

Christopher Pollitt is a British scholar currently working at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He began his career, after education at Oxford, as a member of the Administrative Class of the UK Civil Service before moving to the academic world in 1975. He has taught at various universities in Europe and around the world and has focussed especially on issues of public service reform and effectiveness.

Author (with Geert Bouckaert) of a standard text book on Public Management Reform, Christopher Pollitt was a recent winner of the Hans-Sigrist Stiftung international prize ‘for outstanding scientific research in the field of public governance’.

He was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the International Review of Administrative Sciences in Berlin in July 2005. Christopher Pollitt currently lives in Brussels.

Associate Editor of the International Review of Administrative Sciences (IRAS):

Yves Emery (Switzerland)

Yves Emery is a Master of Science (MSc) in business and industrial studies and holds a Doctorate in Economics and Society from the University of Geneva.  Appointed professor at IDHEAP (Institute for Advanced Studies in Public Administration (IDHEAP) in 1992, he teaches and conducts research in the framework of post-graduate master's in public administration, and advises governments in the areas of public management , management of human resources and quality management. Member of the Board of the Swiss Society of Administrative Sciences (SGVW), member of "Speyer Beirat" international award for quality in public services, Steering committee member of the Society for Economic and Social Studies (SEES) and member of the Study Group "Personnel Policies" of the European Group of Public Administration (EGPA), he is also part of several editorial boards and authored numerous books and publications scientists.

Director of Publications

Gérard Timsit (France)

Professor emeritus at the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne). He has combined the study of legal science, its origins and approaches borrowed from other sciences, devoting much of his scientific activity to the theory of law, administrative science and Comparative Law. Throughout his career, he has extended his thinking and fed them through  action since he went on to assume administrative and expertise functions as well as promote research such as international and European exchange.  

Members

Salah M. Al-Maayoof (Saudi Arabia)

Salah M. Al-Maayoof holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration from the University of Pittsburgh.  He has had a long and distinguished career at the Institute of Public Administration (IPA) in Riyadh and is currently serving as Deputy Director General for Training Affairs. His extensive work in training and development, research, and academic administration has resulted in several published works as well as leadership roles on current committees and councils at the IPA.

Carla Barbati (Italy)

Carla Barbati is Professor of Administrative Law at University of Milan-Iulm, Faculty of Arts, Markets and Cultural Heritage. She also teaches  Regional  Law in the Public Administration Specialization School (Spisa) at the University of Bologna.  Law graduate of the University of Modena (1983), she received her PhD degree in Public Law from the University of Bologna (1989), being visiting scholar at the University of Virginia.  Before joining University of Milan, she has been Professor of Administrative Law at University of Salento, School of Law (1999-2010), Assistant Professor of Public Law at the University of Modena (1990-1999), teaching also as an Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning Law at the University of Venice (1993-1994) and of Public Law at the University of Bologna (1995-1999). Her main areas of scholarly interest are: administrative decentralization, local government, decision-making processes, competition policies, public-private partnership, performing arts policy and funding, cultural heritage preservation and enhancement.  She is author of three books, the most recent on public advisory bodies (2002), co-author of a book on competition and territorial decentralization (2005), co-author and co-editor of five books concerning landscape and cultural heritage preservation and enhancement. Her publications also include over eighty articles and essays. She is co-founder and member of Aedon, Journal  of Arts and Law on line, Board of Directors. Professor Barbati is a former member of the Italian Administrative Law Professors Society’s Board of Directors (2006-2009). She has served as a consultant to the Italian Senate 7th Standing Committee on Film industry regulation (2007-2008) and to the Italian Regions Coordination on Performing Arts Policy (2002). She has also served on the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities Advisory Committee on Cultural Heritage Enhancement (2007-2008) and on the Italian Government Public Function Department Advisory Committee on Administrative Decentralization (1997-1998 ). 

Gavin Drewry (United Kingdom)  

Gavin Drewry is Professor of Public Administration at Royal Holloway, University of London and an Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Law at University College, London. He has written extensively on public sector reform, on parliamentary select committees, on the legislative process and on public law. His most recent books include Public Service Reform (Pinter, 1996) and The Law and Parliament (Butterworths, 1998) - both co-authored with Dawn Oliver; Law and the Spirit of Inquiry (Kluwer, 1999), co-edited with Charles Blake; and Britain in the European Union (Palgrave, 2004), co-edited with Philip Giddings. He is currently directing a major research project on the operation of the UK Court of Appeal, funded by the Nuffield Foundation. Professor Drewry is a former Chair of the Study of Parliament Group and is co-convenor of a permanent study group of EGPA on Contractualisation in the Public Sector. He is Deputy Editor of the Statute Law Review, and serves on the editorial boards of several other journals, including the International Review of Administrative Sciences

Albert Hofmeister (Switzerland)

Dr. Albert E. Hofmeister was born in Rheinfelden (Switzerland) in 1947. He completed his studies in Switzerland at the Graduate School of Business, Economics, Law and Social Sciences of the University of St. Gallen and obtained a Ph.D. in 1976. He is currently Chief Inspector of the Internal Audit Unit of the Swiss Ministry of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports. Also, since 1993, he is Senior Lecturer in administrative sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Dr. Hofmeister is a founding and honorary member of the Swiss Society for Administrative Sciences (SSAS), as well as a member of its Executive Committee. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the International Speyer Quality Contest (Germany) and a member of the Editorial Committee of the International Review of Administrative Sciences (IRAS).

Eyyup Günay Isbir (Turkey)

Mr. Isbir is Director general of the Public Administration Institute for Turkey and the Middle East (TODAIE) 

Terry Olson (France)

Terry Olson is State Councillor delegated to international relations affairs. 

Theodor Thanner (Austria)

On 1 July 2007, Mr. Thanner was appointed Director General of the Austrian Federal Competition Authority (BWB). Before joining the BWB he was, among others, head of the Directorate General of Legal Affairs, Federal Ministry of the Interior and filled several positions with the Federal Defense and the Federal Chancellery. Mr. Thanner studied law at the University of Salzburg. He is a member, among others, the "Patent-und Oberster Markensenat" (Court of Appeal concerning patents and trademarks) and author of numerous publications on constitutional and administrative law.
 

Pileon Seo (Korea)

M. Seo is Deputy Minister

Amitabh Rajan (India)

Born on 1st January, 1955 Dr. Amitabh Rajan started his civil service career by joining the Indian Administrative Service in 1979.  As a career bureaucrat, he has served the State Government of Maharashtra and Government of India, in various capacities.  He holds Master’s Degree in Modern History and Doctorate in Sociology.   

With the Government of Maharashtra and Government of India, Dr. Rajan has held very senior positions in the areas of Power Sector Regulation, Corporate Governance and Investment Commission.     Presently, he is holding the charge of Additional Secretary, Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Government of India.
Dr. Rajan is a prolific writer; to mention a few books to his credit -‘Sociology of Human Rights’, ‘Explorations in Local History and Literature’, besides the publications in Indian Journal of Public Administration entitled – ‘Information Rights  : A Jurisprudential Audit’ and  ‘Jurisprudence of Children’s Rights’.

He speaks fluent English and is active in professional, international and administrative network. He has good knowledge of Hindi, English and Marathi.  

Mr. Vrontakis is vice-president of the Council of State.

He is also a member of the European Commission for Justice Efficiency, representing Greece.

Ex Officio

Rolet Loretan (Switzerland)

Director General

Jozef Hendrix (Belgium)

Treasurer