Dr. Anastasopoulos is an Associate Professor of Public Administration and Policy and an Adjunct Professor of Statistics at the University of Georgia. His research interests are on the political consequences of technological change with a focus on bureaucracy. He also does research in political methodology and has interests in causal inference, Bayesian statistics and machine learning. His work has been featured in political science, economics and public administration journals including the American Political Science Review, Political Analysis, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory and the Journal of Human Capital. He has received several awards for his work including: the Miller Prize for Best Paper in Political Methodology, John L. Knight Foundation Freedom of the Press Award the APSA Paul A. Volcker Junior Scholar Research Grant, and a Peter G. Peterson Foundation U.S. 2050 Grant. Dr. Anastasopoulos has also held visiting appointments at Princeton, Emory, UC Berkeley and Harvard.

Dr. Heejin Cho is a senior research manager at the Partnership for Public Service. She explores the intersection of employee engagement, leadership, and performance. Also, she seeks to promote evidence-based decision-making in public organizations through data storytelling. At the Partnership, she leads research and analysis of the Best Place to Work in the Federal Government, as well as the Agency Performance Dashboard. Prior to joining the Partnership, Heejin worked at Texas Health and Human Services where she helped the agency set performance goals and analyzed performance data to assist leadership with data-driven decisions. Heejin holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management from the University of Southern California.

Jason Coupet is an Associate Professor of Public Management and Policy in the Andrew Young School for Policy Studies at Georgia State University. Jason’s Ph.D. is in Strategic Management from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and his BA in Economics from the University of Michigan. His research interests include strategic management, efficiency, performance measurement, organizational economics, management science applications in the public sector, and the political economy of organizations. He is on the Executive Board of ARNOVA, the APPAM Policy Council, and on the board of the Public Management Research Association. He serves as an Associate Editor of Journal of Nonprofit Management and Leadership, and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, and the Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs. 

Donald F. Kettl is professor emeritus and former dean at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. Until his retirement, he was the Sid Richardson Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also a senior adviser at the Volcker Alliance, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Kettl is the author or editor of 25 books, including Experts in Government: The Deep State from Caligula to Trump and Beyond (2023); Bridgebuilders: How Government Can Transcend Boundaries to Solve Big Problems (with William D. Eggers, 2023); and The Politics of the Administrative Process (9th edition, 2023). He has received six lifetime achievement awards, and three of his books have received national best-book awards. Kettl holds a PhD in political science from Yale University.

John Marvel is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University, where he teaches courses on organization theory, organizational behavior, and human resource management.  He holds a BA in economics from Amherst College and a Ph.D. in public administration from American University. Professor Marvel’s research focuses on public management issues, including public sector work motivation, leader emergence in public sector organizations, and public sector performance pay.  He also does work on public opinion, focusing on how citizens evaluate information about government performance. His research is published in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, and other journals. Professor Marvel has previously been a Fellow with the federal government’s Office of Evaluation Sciences (oes.gsa.gov).

Mark Richardson is an assistant professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. His research interests include the U.S. presidency, executive branch politics, and public management. His research appears in the Journal of Politics, Public Administration Review, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and the Journal of Public Policy. His work has been covered by The Washington Post, the Federal Times, and The Science of Politics podcast. His article, Politicization and Expertise: Exit, Effort, and Investment, won the Joseph L. Bernd Award for the best paper published in the Journal of Politics in 2019. He received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University, a Master of Public Administration from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Tennessee at Martin.

Jennifer L. Selin is an Associate Professor of Law at ASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law.  Her research explores the democratic accountability of the administrative state.  She has written extensively on the responsiveness of federal administrators to the President and Congress and how administrative structure affects policy implementation.  Dr. Selin’s scholarship has been published in law, political science, and public administration journals and has been utilized by the Obama, Trump, and Biden Administrations, Congress, the Supreme Court, and the media. Prior to joining ASU, Dr. Selin was a senior attorney advisor at the Administrative Conference of the United States and served as an assistant professor at the Universities of Illinois and Missouri. Dr. Selin is proud graduate of Lebanon Valley College and holds a J.D. from Wake Forest University and a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University.