H. Brinton Milward, Ph.D., is the McClelland Professor of Public Management and the Director of the School of Public Administration and Policy at the University of Arizona. He is also the Associate Dean of the Eller College of Management. Milward is jointly appointed in the Departments of Management and Organizations, Political Science, and Sociology, and he is a Faculty Associate at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy.
Professor Milward’s research interests revolve around the intersection of public policy and management. He has focused much of his recent work on understanding how to efficiently and effectively manage networks of nonprofit organizations that jointly produce public services like mental health. His most recent work is comparing private firms and nonprofit agencies that deliver the same services under government
contracts. His recent article “Dark Networks as Problems” has been widely cited for its application of network analysis to terrorist networks, human trafficking, drug smuggling, and other illegal activities. His research has been funded by the IBM Center for The Business of Government, the Aspen Institute, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Milward is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and served as the first president of the Public Management Research Association. He served as president of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration and has served on the Policy Council of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. He has also served (twice) as chair of the Public Administration Section of the American Political Science Association and as chair of the Public and Nonprofit Division of the Academy of Management.
He currently serves as the North American regional editor for the international journal Public Management Review. He serves on the editorial boards of Administration and Society and the International Public Management Journal. He has served as associate editor of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory and currently serves on its board.
Milward received his Ph.D. in public administration from Ohio State University.