Raymond W. Cox III is a Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies at the University of Akron. He received his PhD in Public Administration and Policy from Virginia Tech. Dr. Cox is the author of nearly sixty academic and professional publications (including three books with another being readied for publication), a dozen reports for government agencies, as well as nearly fifty professional papers. His articles have appeared in the leading journals in the field of public management, including Public Administration Review, Public Administration Quarterly, Public Integrity, the International Journal of Public Administration and the American Review of Public Administration. His service to the profession was recognized with the prestigious Donald C. Stone Award from the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA). In served a two-year term as the Chair of ASPA’s Section on Ethics and next year begins a term as Chair of the Section on Intergovernmental Administration and Management. He is also the Chair of the Local Government Management Education Committee of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA). During a career that has spanned considerably more than three decades Dr. Cox has had three stints in the public service, first as a legislative analyst (Speaker’s Office, Massachusetts House of Representatives), as a Program Manager/Director for the National Science Foundation and as the Chief of Staff to a Lieutenant Governor (New Mexico). Because of this combination of professional and academic experience he was approved for the Fulbright Senior Specialist Program. His first assignment was to develop a performance measurement training program for mid-level managers in the government of Latvia. Later he created a career development training program for that government. In 2007 he was selected as Research Chair in Public Policy at McGill University under the Fulbright Program.
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