Steven M. Maser is Professor of Public Policy and Public Management at Willamette University’s Atkinson Graduate School of Management in Oregon. He has published 30 articles on the topics of government regulation of business, municipal charters, constitutions, negotiation, conflict management, and public management. He teaches MBA-level courses on public policy, public management, negotiation, and organizational conflict management.

Maser has held senior administrative appointments at the Atkinson School and has been a visiting fellow at the Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University, and a visiting research scholar at the Olin School of Business at Washington University, and at Yale Law School. He has consulted on organizational change and conflict management with regulated utilities, insurance and contract construction engineering companies, and State of Oregon agencies.

He received his PhD and MA from the University of Rochester (1975) and his SB from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.