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Meet the IASIA 2026 Keynote Speakers

Diogo Pereira,


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We are pleased to announce Betânia Lemos, Michael W. Bauer and Christina Koulouri as keynote speakers for the IASIA 2026 Annual Conference, taking place in Athens from 12 to 16 October 2026 under the theme “Rethinking Governance for a Changing World.”

The three speakers bring distinct academic and professional backgrounds to the conference, spanning public administration and institutional leadership, European and international governance, and modern and contemporary history.

Betânia Lemos, President of Brazil’s National School of Public Administration (Enap), brings more than 15 years of experience as a federal civil servant, including work on the economic evaluation of social projects and public policies, institutional innovation, change implementation and educational management. An economist and specialist in new technologies for education, she was included in Apolitical’s 2024 list of 50 public servants working with governments to advance gender equality policies.

At the European University Institute, Michael W. Bauer holds the Chair of Public Administration at the Florence School of Transnational Governance. His research focuses on European and international public administration, multilevel governance and the role of bureaucracy in democratic systems. He is also the principal investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant LIBRAD, examining liberal administration under populist rule.

Bringing a different disciplinary background, Christina Koulouri is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and Rector of Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens. Educated in Athens and Paris, she has held research positions at Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne, Princeton University and the University of Regensburg. The author of eight books and more than 50 articles, she has received national and international awards for her research and publications.

Their experience and insights will offer conference participants valuable perspectives on the challenges and transformations shaping public administration today. We look forward to welcoming you to Athens this October.
Register now and join us at #IASIA2026.

 

Resources

Public Management Review Special Issue Proposal

Pearl Beleyn  

5 November 2026

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Public administration and management research has long drawn most of its ideas from Western, industrialised democracies. Yet Asia and the Global South have become major sites of administrative change, with large-scale reforms, fast-moving technology and some of the most inventive experiments in governance. Research from these regions has grown accordingly, but it is still often used to illustrate or apply theories made elsewhere, rather than to produce new ones.

This special issue of Public Management Review aims to change that. It invites authors to treat practice in Asia and the Global South as a starting point for theory: to test, question or extend established approaches, and to propose new concepts and explanations. It does not look for a single theory of these regions, which are far too diverse for that, but for context-sensitive contributions that also say something useful for policy and practice.

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The 2027 Transatlantic Dialogue: The Role of Public Policy and Administration in Shaping Democracy and Promoting the Resilience of Democratic Norms and Institutions.

Pearl Beleyn  

5 November 2026

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ASPA and EGPA call for papers | New Orleans, April 12-13, 2027 | Deadline: November 30, 2026

As democratic institutions face mounting pressure worldwide, public administrators are increasingly asked to spell out the role of their field in protecting and improving democratic systems. The American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) and the European Group for Public Administration (EGPA) are responding with the 2027 Transatlantic Dialogue (TAD), held alongside ASPA’s Annual Conference.

The theme is The Role of Public Policy and Administration in Shaping Democracy and Promoting the Resilience of Democratic Norms and Institutions.

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IASIA 2026: the Global Public Administration Community Together in Athens

Pearl Beleyn  

29 October 2026

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From 12 to 16 October 2026, the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration (IASIA) held its Annual Conference in Athens, hosted by EKDDA, the National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government. Under the theme “Rethinking Governance for a Changing World”, the conference gathered 400 delegates from 57 countries and marked the 65th anniversary of the association. Athens was a conference grounded by learning and history but also new projects and connexions.

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