Rosemary O’Leary is Distinguished Professor of Public Administration (with additional appointments in political science and law) and Maxwell School Advisory Board Endowed Chair at Syracuse University. She is co-director of the Collaborative Governance Initiative and codirector of the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts. An elected member of the National Academy of Public Administration, she was a senior Fulbright scholar in Malaysia in 1998–1999 and in the Philippines in 2005–2006. Previously, Professor O’Leary was professor of public and environmental affairs at Indiana University and cofounder and co-director of the Indiana Conflict Resolution Institute (with Lisa Blomgren Bingham). O’Leary is the author or editor of six books and more than 100 articles and book chapters on public management. She has won 10 national research awards, including Best Book in Public and Nonprofit Management for 2000 (given by the Academy of Management), Best Book in Environmental Management and Policy for 1999 and 2005 (given by the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), and the Mosher Award, which she won twice, for best article by an academician published in Public Administration Review (1991 and 1992). In 2007, O’Leary was awarded the Charles H. Levine Award for excellence in teaching, research, and service (given jointly by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration [NASPAA] and ASPA), as well as the University of Kansas College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award. She has won eight teaching awards as well. She is the only person to win three NASPAA awards for Best Dissertation (1989), Excellence in Teaching (1996), and Distinguished Research (2004). From 2003 to 2005, O’Leary was a member of NASA’s Return to Flight Task Group, assembled in response to the Columbia space shuttle accident, and has served as a consultant to numerous other government organizations. In the early 1980s, she worked as an attorney and as an administrator for the State of Kansas. O’Leary holds a Ph.D. in public administration from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, and M.P.A., J.D., and B.A. degrees from the University of Kansas.