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Donald F. Kettl
Dean of the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland
Donald F. Kettl is the dean of the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Kettl is the author or editor of more than 20 books, including The Next Government of the United States: Why Our Institutions Fail Us and How to Fix Them (2008), System under Stress: Homeland Security and American Politics (2007), and The Global Public Management Revolution (2005). He has twice won the Louis Brownlow Book Award of the National Academy of Public Administration for the best book published in public administration. In 2008, Kettl won the American Political Science’s John Gaus Award for a lifetime of exemplary scholarship in political science and public administration. He was awarded the Warner W. Stockberger Achievement Award of the International Public Management Association for Human Resources in 2007 for outstanding contributions in the field of public sector personnel management.
He was awarded a PhD in political science from Yale University. Prior to his appointment at the University of Maryland, he taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, the University of Virginia, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a fellow of Phi Beta Kappa and the National Academy of Public Administration.
Kettl has consulted broadly for government organizations at all levels, in the United States and abroad. He has appeared frequently in national media, including National Public Radio,
Good Morning America, the ABC World News Tonight, the CBS Evening News, CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” and “The Situation Room,” the Fox News Channel, Al Jazeera, as well as public television’s News Hour and the BBC. He is a regular columnist for Governing magazine, which is read by state and local government officials around the country. He chaired state-wide two blue-ribbon commissions in Wisconsin, one on campaign finance reform and the other on government structure and finance. Kettl is also a shareholder of the Green Bay Packers.