Alasdair Roberts

Alasdair Roberts is an associate professor in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He is also Director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute at Syracuse University.A native of Pembroke, Ontario, Canada, Professor Roberts began his BA in politics at Queen's University in 1979. He received a JD from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 1984, a Master's degree in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1986, and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University in 1994.From 1990 to 2001, Professor Roberts taught in the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University, Canada. He was Associate Director of the School from 1993 to 1995. He has also held visiting appointments at Georgetown University's Graduate Public Policy Institute and at the University of Southern California's Washington Public Affairs Center. He was a visiting scholar at the Council for Excellence in Government in Washington, DC in 1997-98 and a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC in 1999-2000. He was an Individual Program Fellow of the Open Society Institute, New York in 2000-2001. His research focuses on two areas: public sector restructuring, and transparency in government. His work has been widely published. He received the Dimock Award for best lead article in Public Administration Review in 1995, and the Hodgetts Award for best English article in Canadian Public Administration in 2000.