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Angela M. Páez is an Assistant Professor and Graduate Programs Coordinator in the Department of Public Administration at Tennessee State University (Nashville - USA). Dr. Páez holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration from the University of Kansas (USA) where she was a Fulbright Scholar. She also holds a master's in administrative law and a law degree (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia). Angela Páez has published her research in academic journals such as the Latin American Research Review and Water. Her research interests include law and Public Administration, courts and rights protection, and water governance in Latin America. She is currently serving as a Board member in two ASPA sections: the Section on Public Administration Research (SPAR) and the Section on International and Comparative Administration (SICA).

Ljubinka Andonoska is an Associate Professor of Public Administration in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at UTEP. Her research is in the field of public budgeting, fiscal decentralization, public management, and policy evaluation. Her interest includes state and local level governments, both nationally and internationally.  

As a public administration scholar, she is an active member of the American Society of Public Administration. She is serving as a board member of ASPA’s Section on International and Comparative Administration (SICA) and an associate editor of the Occasional Public Series (OPS) and a Secretary of the ASPA’s South West Texas Chapter.

Dr. Ricardo Bello-Gomez is an assistant professor in the School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA) at Rutgers University–Newark. Dr. Bello-Gomez studies public management, intergovernmental relations, and comparative public administration. His overall research agenda explores the institutional, organizational, and individual factors affecting government performance as well as executive and citizens’ perceptions, often focusing on the provision of social services in Latin America. His research has been published in Public Administration Review, Public Management Review, Journal of Public Policy, Public Administration, and Review of Public Personnel Administration, among other outlets. He is currently one of the Associate Editors of the Review of Public Personnel Administration. 

Cristina Stanica is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University in Boston, where she teaches public policy and administration courses. She holds a PhD in Urban Affairs and Public Policy from the University of Delaware. As the incoming Chair of the Section on International and Comparative Public Administration, Dr. Stanica studies and researches comparative public administration topics. A 2019 David Gould Scholar Award recipient, her scholarship examines public governance, the digital transformation of bureaucracy, and public trust. She has published articles in leading journals such as the International Review of Administrative Sciences, the International Journal of Public Leadership, the Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, and the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice. 

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Service and Healthcare Administration, Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University. I am also the Executive Director of the National Center for Public Performance (NCPP), a public service center dedicated to improving performance in the public and nonprofit organizations. My research and teaching interests include e-government, performance measurement, strategic planning, public communications, and comparative public administration. My research takes a global and comparative perspective to identify best practices in public management across the world. I was involved in e-government projects in Rwanda, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, South Africa, and India. My books include E-Government and Information Technology Management: Concepts and Best Practices; and E-Government and Websites: A Public Solutions Handbook. I previously chaired the ASPA Section on Public Performance and Management (SPPM). I received my Ph.D. from the School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA), Rutgers University-Newark and MPA from Kansas State University.

Juan David Gutiérrez is an associate professor at the School of Government of Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. He teaches and investigates public policy, public management, and artificial intelligence. He holds a PhD in Public Policy and an MSc in Public Policy from the University of Oxford. He also holds a Master of Law and Economics (LLM) jointly awarded by the University of Bologna and the University of Erasmus Rotterdam and a bachelor in law from the Universidad Javeriana. Juan David is a member of the Group of Experts of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI), where he leads the Repositories of Public Algorithms Project. For over fifteen years, Juan David has provided expert advice to governments of Latin America and the Caribbean, multilateral organizations (such as UNESCO, APEC, and IADB), and civil society organizations (such as Ford Foundation and NRGI).

Jungwon Yeo, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Central Florida. Her primary research focuses on enhancing attitudes, behaviors, and cognitions of diverse individuals and organizations and their collective decision-making process in critical policy contexts, such as disaster and crisis management, migration, and human security. Additionally, her research explores key topics shaping contemporary discourse in public administration including accountability, ethics, leadership, and social justice and their consequential impact on public service provision. Her research experience is demonstrated through refereed publications, national and international conference presentations, and multi-year interdisciplinary research grant awards. She is an associate editor of National Hazards Review and International Journal of Public Sector Management.

Elizabeth Pérez Chiqués is assistant professor at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas’ (CIDE) Division of Public Administration. Her research agenda focuses on government corruption, public personnel management, and policy implementation. Recently, she has developed work on corruption consolidation, local corruption networks, informal personnel practices, policy failure and street-level work in environments of systemic corruption.  

Allison C. White is an Assistant Professor in the Master of Public Policy and Administration program at Colorado State University, where she directs the international policy and management specialization. She received her Ph.D. in Government from The University of Texas at Austin, her MA in Social Sciences from The University of Chicago, and her BA in Politics from Occidental College. Allison’s primary research interests include policymaking, elections, and corruption in Russia and other dictatorships. A separate strand of research explores the domestic, local-level implications of U.S. military spending through the “Peace Dividend Project,” which has been funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Charlene M. L. Roach serves as a lecturer in public management at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago, where she earned her undergraduate degree. She obtained her M.P.A. and Ph.D. in public administration from Arizona State University, USA. Her research and teaching interests are focused on public management, public human resource management, comparative administration and e-government.

Dr. Benjamin Dille has spent three decades as a Foreign Service Officer reaching the rank of Minister Counselor. He was recognized with the Secretary’s Award for Heroism, the Secretary of State’s Arnold Raphel Award, and received a Meritorious Presidential Rank Award. Dr. Dille has served in Venezuela, Mexico, China, Nicaragua, the Czech Republic, Kazakhstan, Micronesia, Irak, Afghanistan, Sudan, Sierra Leone, and Belarus. He has also served in multiple international organizations such as the Bureau of African Affairs. Dr. Dille earned a B.A. in History and International Relations, cum laude, from Macalester College, an LL.M in European Legal Systems from Exeter University, and a PhD in international and comparative law from the London School of Economics. He has served in academic assignments at the Marine Corps War College and George Washington University. Dr. Dille is currently developing academic publications and is an instructor in the MPA program at APU and AMU.