Rosemary O'Leary
309 Eggers Hall
315-443-4991
315-443-9734 Fax
roleary@maxwell.syr.edu
Senior Research Associate,
Campbell
Public Affairs Institute
Distinguished Professor of Public Administration,
Public
Administration
Senior Research Associate,
Center for Environmental Policy and Administration
Co-Director,
Program
for the Analysis and Resolution of Conflict
PPA 709
Rosemary
O'Leary is Distinguished Professor of Public Administration. An elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Public Administration, she was
a senior Fulbright scholar in
Malaysia in 1998-1999 and the Philippines in
2005-2006. Previously O'Leary was professor of public and environmental affairs
at Indiana University
and co-founder and co-director of the Indiana Conflict Resolution Institute.
O’Leary’s areas of expertise include Public Management, Environmental Policy,
Dispute Resolution, and Law.
O'Leary is the author or editor of
six books and more than 100 articles on
public management and public policy. She has won nine national research awards,
including Best Book in Public and Nonprofit Management for 2000 (given by the
Academy of Management), Best Book in Environmental Management and Policy for
2005 and 1999 (given by the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA)), and the Mosher
Award, which she won twice, for best article by an academician published in
Public Administration Review. Her research has been funded by the Hewlett
Foundation (9 years), the International City/County Management Association, the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the
American Bar Association,
and the IBM Center for the Business of Government.
She is the only
person to win three awards from the National Association of Schools of Public
Affairs and Administration (NASPAA): Distinguished Research (2004), Excellence
in Teaching (1996), and Best Dissertation (1989). In 2003, O'Leary was awarded the Syracuse University Chancellor's Citation for
Exceptional Academic Achievement, the highest research award at the university.
She has won
eight teaching awards and was the recipient of the
Distinguished Service Award given by ASPA's Section on Environment and Natural
Resources Administration. O'Leary has served as national chair of the Public
Administration Section of the American Political Science Association, and as the
national chair of the Section on Environment and Natural Resources
Administration of ASPA.
From 2003-2005, O’Leary
was a member of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration's Return to Flight Task Group assembled in response to the
Columbia space shuttle accident. In 2004, she also served as a member of NASA's Aerospace
Safety Advisory Panel. O'Leary has worked as a consultant to
the U.S. Department of the Interior, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution,
the National Science Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences, the Indiana
Department of Environmental Management, and the International City/County
Management Association. She has worked as an attorney and as an
administrator in Kansas state government.
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