Frank T. Anbari

Frank T. Anbari (Ph.D., Project Management and Quality Enhancement; MBA; MS Engineering; PMP; PE; and ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt) is a Clinical Professor in the Project Management Program, Multidisciplinary and Emerging Programs, School of Technology and Professional Studies at the Goodwin College of Professional Studies of Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Lisa Blomgren Amsler

Lisa Blomgren Amsler (formerly Bingham) is the Keller-Runden Professor of Public Service at Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, Indiana. Her research focuses on voice in governance and conflict management, with a focus on collaborative governance, public engagement, dispute resolution, and dispute system design. An elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, Amsler has received national awards from four different professional associations.

R. Michael Alvarez

R. Michael Alvarez is a Professor of Political Science at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. He is currently co-director of the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project. In his academic career, Dr. Alvarez has published three books: two on electoral politics and public opinion, and one on Internet voting. He is currently collaborating with Thad E. Hall on a book on the e-voting controversy, which will be published by Princeton University Press in 2006.

Rachel Burstein and Alissa Black

Rachel Burstein is Academic Director at Books@Work, a public humanities nonprofit organization. Dr. Burstein previously served as a Research Associate at the New America Foundation’s California Civic Innovation Project. In her role at the New America Foundation, she studied perceptions of innovation among government staffers, knowledge and innovation diffusion, and civic innovation theory and practice at the local level.

Mark Adler

Michael Adler is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies in the School of Social and Political Studies at the University of Edinburgh, where he has been since 1971. With the exception of periods of leave spent at the Center for Law and Society at UC Berkeley, the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at Oxford University, and the Faculty of Laws at University College, London, he has taught and carried out research in Edinburgh continuously since then. His main research interests focus on the interface between public law and social policy.

Angela Allison

Angela Allison is a doctoral student at Texas A&M University’s Department of Political Science. Her areas of specialization are public policy and administration and race and ethnic politics with a substantive interest in health care bureaucracy. She has given research presentations at annual meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association and the Southern Political Science Association. Ms. Allison received a Graduate Scholar award from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation in 2013. She also received a Texas A&M Diversity Fellowship in 2013.

Robert Agranoff

Robert Agranoff was Professor Emeritus in the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University–Bloomington, where was a part of the Policy and Administration and the Urban and Regional faculty groups. Prior to his retirement from full-time status, he served as associate dean for Bloomington, director of Public Affairs/Public Policy Doctoral Programs, and chairperson, Policy and Administration Faculty (1980–2001). Since 1990, he was affiliated with the Government and Public Administration Program of the Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset in Madrid, Spain.

Jeff Adams

Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Jeff Adams is a data analyst in the Army serving as a Research Fellow in the Army's Training with Industry program, through which he works with IBM for one year before returning to the Army. His research fellowship is intended to help him learn how industry analyzes big data and communicates strategic insights to senior leaders to take this knowledge base back to the Army. LTC Adams worked with the IBM Center for several months.

Mark A. Abramson

Mark A. Abramson is a Consultant to the IBM Center for The Business of Government. He served as the Executive Director of the IBM Center from July 1998 to February 2007. Mr. Abramson is co-editor of the IBM Center for the Business of Government Book Series, published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. He is also the author or editor of 13 books and has published more than 100 articles on public management. In 2005, he was appointed to the editorial board of the Public Administration Review.

Mark A. Abramson

Mark A. Abramson is a Consultant to the IBM Center for The Business of Government. He served as the Executive Director of the IBM Center from July 1998 to February 2007.

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