Rodney Bent

Gadi Ben-Yehuda

Gadi Ben-Yehuda was our Innovation Fellow for the Center for The Business of Government. In the five years that Mr. Ben-Yehuda was with the Center, he was a speaker, panelist and moderator for events with State Department, Department of Labor, Department of Defense, General Services Administration, and other agencies. He also delivered presentations both nationally and internationally, at SxSW Interactive Festival in Austin, TX, the Global eGovernment Forum in Seoul, South Korea, and conferences in venues ranging from Washington, DC, to New York City, and Las Vegas, NV, to Burlington, VT.

France Belanger

Dr. France Bélanger is Director of the Center for Global Electronic Commerce and Assistant Professor of Information Systems in the Department of Accounting and Information Systems at Virginia Tech. Prior to her academic career, Dr. Bélanger held various technical, marketing, and managerial positions in large information systems and telecommunicationscorporations. She is also a consultant in electronic business and distance learning.

Robert D. Behn

Robert D. Behn, a lecturer at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, focuses his research and teaching on the leadership challenge of improving performance in public agencies. He chairs the School’s executive-education program, “Driving Government Performance: Leadership Strategies that Produce Results.” Bob served on the staff of Massachusetts Governor Francis W.

Michael Barzelay

Michael Barzelay is Professor of Public Management and the Head of the Department of Management. He normally teaches core courses on the MPA Public Policy and Management, the MSc Public Management and Governance, and the MSc Health Economics, Policy, and Management programmes. He is also affiliated with the Department of Government and the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, within the Department of Accounting. Professor Barzelay is widely known for his 1992 book, Breaking Through Bureaucracy: A New Vision for Managing in Government.

John P. Bartkowski

John P. Bartkowski is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Mississippi State University. Much of his current research examines the relationship between religious involvement, social inequality, and family life. Bartkowski is particularly interested in the social, cultural, and economic resources that religious congregations in rural areas provide to their membership and vulnerable populations within their local communities. His other research has examined the motivations and community-level impact of grassroots neighborhood activism in Austin, Texas.

William G. Barron Jr.

William G. Barron, Jr., is a senior client executive at Northrop Grumman Corporation. Prior to joining Northrop Grumman, Barron was a visiting lecturer in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University for the spring 2005 semester. Before returning to Princeton, Barron was senior vice president for economic studies at the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago. Barron spent the 2003–2004 and 2002–2003 academic years at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, where he was the Frederick H.

Bruce T. Barkley, Sr.

Bruce T. Barkley, Sr. was a charter member of the federal Senior Executive Service (SES). He retired from the federal government and taught public administration and program management at the Keller Graduate School of Management in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Barkley held a variety of positions in government. Prior to his retirement, he served as Director, Office of Management Systems and Evaluation, United States Environmental Protection Agency.

Ravi Bansal

Ravi Bansal is an Associate Partner and a strategist at IBM Global Business Services. He is a proven business leader with extensive experience in proposing, leading and delivering large multimillion-dollar mission-critical enterprise solutions. In addition, Mr. Bansal is a strategist for IBM federal’s cloud computing and smarter government initiatives. He authored 5E framework for targeted IT consolidation and the strategic framework for cloud alliances.

Rajiv D. Banker

Rajiv D. Banker is the Merves Chair and Director of the Center for Accounting and Information Technology at the Fox School of Business, Temple University. Previously, Dr. Banker served as the Anderson Chair and Dean at the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Riverside. He also held distinguished professorial and endowed chair positions at the University of Texas at Dallas, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Minnesota. Dr. Banker is internationally recognized as a leader in interdisciplinary research in management.

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