Keynote Speakers at NISPAcee Conferences
22nd Conference in Budapest, Hungary, 2014
Topic:
Government vs. Governance in Central and Eastern Europe
From Pre-Weberianism to Neo-Weberianism?
Prof. Dr. András PATYI, Rector, National University of Public Service is the university
professor of Public Law. Editor and main author of four university textbooks
(Administrative Law), having almost 100 scientific publications. After
finishing his legal studies (doctor iuris title) in 1993, he started working at
the Hungarian Constitutional Court. After a decade of administrative experience
as a senior ranking civil servant ("notary" of the 12th District
Local Government in Budapest) he returned to the Constitutional Court as chief
counselor. He has been appointed to the Supreme Court (now Curia) in 2009. He
submitted his Ph.D. thesis in 2002 (The Judicial Review of Administration in
Hungary), succeeded in the habilitation process (The title of his thesis was:
Administration – Constitution – Courts), and became a university professor in
2011. From the 1st of January 2012 - ending his service as justice at the
Hungarian Supreme Court (now Curia) - he is the Rector of the National
University of Public Service (NUPS).From the 30th of September 2013 he is the President of the Hungarian
National Electoral Commission.
Professor Dr Geert Bouckaert is teaching and researching at the Public Management Institute, of
which he is de Director, of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in
Leuven, Belgium. He is specialised in public sector reform in general
and financial management and performance measurement in the public
sector in particular. He received his graduate degrees in Business Engineering, Political
Sciences, and Philosophy, and earned his Ph.D. in Social Sciences from
the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Currently he is immediate Past
President of the European Group of Public Administration (EGPA) and of
the Flemish Association of Public Administration. He is a member of
several international editorial boards. 
Prof. Dirk Kaesler was Professor of Sociology at the University of Hamburg
(1984-1995) and of Marburg (1995-2009). He has held visiting professorships at
the University of Chicago, the University of Köln, the University of South Florida
St. Petersburg, the Indiana University Bloomington, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes
en Sciences Sociales, the Humboldt-University Berlin, the University of
München, the University of California-Berkeley, the University of Graz. He
served as President of the "Research Committee on the History of Sociology” of
the "International Sociological Association” (1989-2002) and as member of the
Executive Council of the "German Sociological Society”(2002-2005). His main
research interests cover theories of sociology, history of sociology and Max
Weber-research. In all these fields he has published many books and numerous
articles. [http://www.kaesler-soziologie.de]
21st Conference in Belgrade, Serbia, 2013
Topic: Migration Impact Assessment: New Horizons
Peter Nijkamp
is a Professor in Regional and Urban economics and in Economic
Geography at the VU University, Amsterdam. His main research interests
cover quantitative plan evaluation, regional and urban modelling,
multi-criteria analysis, transport systems analysis, mathematical
systems modelling, technological innovation, entrepreneurship,
environmental and resource management, and sustainable development.Over
the past years he has focused his research in particular on new
quantitative methods for policy analysis, as well as on
spatial-behavioural analysis of economic agents. He has a broad
expertise in the area of public policy, services planning,
infrastructure management and environmental protection. In all these
fields he has published many books and numerous articles.
20th Conference in Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia, 2012
Barbara Kudrycka,
Minister of Science and Education, Poland.Prior to becoming the
Minister she represented Poland as a Deputy of the European Parliament.
She served for many years in the Committee of Experts in Public
Administration of the UNDESA. She holds a full Professor degree and
served, for many years, as Rector of Bialystok School of Public
Administration, Poland. During her academic carrier she served in the
NISPAcee Steering Committee in the years 2000–2006 and as the NISPAcee
President from April 2002 till May 2004.
19th Conference in Varna, Bulgaria, 2011
Topic: Performance and Accountability in Times of Economic Crises
Geert Bouckaert
is Professor of Public Management at the KU Leuven, Belgium. His
research topics include public sector reform and performance in the
public sector. He is past president of the European Group for Public
Administration and currently chair of the scientific committee of the
International Institute of Administrative Sciences.
18th Conference in Warsaw, Poland, 2010
Topic: Public Administration in Time of Crisis
Wolfgang Drechsler
is Professor and Chair of Governance at Tallinn University of
Technology, Estonia (TUT), and Vice Dean for International Relations of
its Faculty of Social Sciences. He has served as Advisor to the
President of Estonia, as Executive Secretary with the German
Wissenschaftsrat during German Reunification, and, as an APSA
Congressional Fellow, and as Senior Legislative Analyst in the United
States Congress. Wolfgang Drechsler has been a consultant to several
international agencies, most recently to the EU, the OECD, the Council
of Europe, SIGMA, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank,
and the UNDP. He has worked, in various capacities, on the national
development plans of Estonia, Peru, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Brazil, and
Norway. He has received NISPAcee’s Alena Brunovska Award for Teaching
Excellence and its Merit Award; the Estonian National Science Award,
Social Science category; the Outstanding Alumnus Award from Bridgewater
College; the Maarjamaa Rist, Estonia’s Order of Merit; and the German
Federal Merit Cross. One of his current areas of interest is
non-Western, especially Chinese and Islamic, Public Administration. He
is also dealing with Public Administration, Technology, and Innovation;
with Web 2.0 Governance; and with Public Management Reform.
17th Conference in Budva, Montenegro, 2009
Topic: Bringing the State Back in One more Time: The Changing Role of State, Society and Markets in Governance
B. Guy Peters
is Maurice Falk Professor of American Government at the University of
Pittsburgh and Professor of Comparative Governance at Zeppelin
University.He previously taught at Emory University, the University of
Delaware and at Tulane University, and has had visiting appointments at a
number of universities in Europe, Latin America and Australia.He has
also worked as a consultant for the UNDP, World Bank, OECD, UNICEF and a
number of national governments.Professor Peters has been active in
NISPAcee for some years, including as co-chair of Working Group 1.He has
received the NISPACEE Lifetime Achievement Award.
Topic: Europeanisation and Democratisation in ECE: Towards the Multilevel and Multiactor Governance
Attila Agh
is a full Professor in the Political Science Department at the Budapest
Corvinus University and the Director of the Research Centre "Together
for Europe” at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His major research
interest is comparative democratisation and Europeanisation - summarized
in the latest book, Eastern Enlargement and the Future of the EU27: EU
foreign policy in a global world (2006). He was the main coordinator of
the "Hungary 2015” strategic project (2005-2007). At present he is the
project leader for the strategic preparation of the Hungarian EU
presidency in 2011 in the Prime Minister’s Office and Hungarian Academy
of Sciences and he has edited The prospect of the team presidencies:
Integrative balancing in the new member states (2008).
16th Conference in Bratislava, Slovakia, 2008
Barbara Kudrycka,
Minister of Science and Education, Poland.Prior to becoming the
Minister she represented Poland as a Deputy of the European Parliament.
She served for many years in the Committee of Experts in Public
Administration of the UNDESA. She holds a full Professor degree and
served, for many years, as Rector of Bialystok School of Public
Administration, Poland. During her academic carrier she served in the
NISPAcee Steering Committee in the years 2000–2006 and as the NISPAcee
President from April 2002 till May 2004.
15th Conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, 2007
Topic: Values, Standards and Competences
Christopher Pollitt
is BOF/ZAP Research Professor of Public Management at the Public
Management Institute, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Previously, he was
Professor of Public Management at Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
(1999-2006). He is also Editor-in-Chief of the International Review of
Administrative Sciences. Christopher is author of more than 60
scientific articles and author or editor of more than a dozen scholarly
books.
14th Conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2006
Derry Ormond, Advisor in Governance, Former Director of Governance and Public Management Programmes in OECD, Paris, France. At the OECD, 1962-98, he founded and directed the Organisation’s
work on public management and governance from 1979 on. This included the
creation of what is now the Committee on public governance, and Working Parties
respectively of heads of prime ministers’ offices, national budget directors,
administrative reform directors, and other related groupings. This became the leading intergovernmental forum
on central management functions. In 1992, he oversaw the setting up of the
joint EU/OECD SIGMA Programme providing support for public administration to
the newly independent Central and Eastern European countries.
13th Conference in Moscow, Russia, 2005
Barbara Kudrycka, Rector, Bialystok School of Public Administration, Poland, Member of the European Parliament
12th Conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, 2004
Bob
Bonwitt is the founder (1991) and Director of the Sigma Programme, which is a
joint OECD/EU initiative, principally financed by the EU. It assists
post-communist countries with their transition to a democratic, rule of law
state with a market economy. It assists the countries prepare for membership of
the European Union. Sigma was one of the founding institutions that supported
the creation of NISPAcee. Prior to Sigma, Bob was one of the founders, Deputy
Director of the OECD’s Public Governance Directorate.
11th Conference in Bucharest, Romania, 2003
Topic: Gearing Governments for Weaving the Future
Tony Verheijen, The World Bank, USA
Yehezkel Dror, Hebrew University, Israel
10th Conference in Cracow, Poland, 2002
Topic: Renewing Public Leadership: The Context for Service Delivery Reform
Jak Jabes
started his academic career at the University of Ottawa where from
between 1973-1993, he undertook research, which focused on
organizational renewal, rewards in the work place, job motivation,
public policy issues and surveys of managerial attitudes. His best-known
work is a book, in partnership with David Zussman, entitled The
Vertical Solitude which describes management practices in the federal
public service of Canada and compares them with those in the private
sector. He has been Editor in Chief of Optimum: The Journal of Public
Sector Management and also the Associate Editor of the International
Review of Administrative Sciences where he is currently on the Editorial
Board. He is the author, co-author or editor of a dozen books and 60
book chapters, articles, papers and reports.His book entitled Traité des
Organisations received the special mention by Harvard l'Expansion for
Best Books in Management published in France in 1982.
Geert Bouckaert
is Professor of Public Management at the KU Leuven, Belgium. His
research topics include public sector reform and performance in the
public sector. He is past President of the European Group for Public
Administration and currently Chair of the Scientific Committee of the
International Institute of Administrative Sciences.
Topic: Delivery of Public Services with Social Responsibility
Marek Debicki, University of Manitoba, Canada