Education
Ph.D., University of Chicago
MA from the University of California, Berkeley
MSEd, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
BA, University of Miami


Background
Professor Allan Rosenbaum has served as Director of the Institute for Public Management and Community Services (IPMCS) for the past nine years. He originally came to FIU as Dean of the School of Public Affairs and Services. He is currently serving as chairperson of a joint taskforce of the United Nations and the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration on the development of standards of excellence for public administration education and training programs around the world. He also serves as co-chairperson of the United Nations expert group on enhancing the capacity of governmental leadership.
The Institute for Public Management and Community Services is the College’s, and the University’s, principal vehicle for working internationally in the areas of decentralization, strengthening sub-national government, enhancing citizen participation, undertaking public administration and governance reform and democratic institution building. The Institute has carried out several projects in Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe (including two large multi-country USAID projects - one on decentralization and local governance, the other on legislative institution building - which were directed by Dr. Rosenbaum).
The Institute also, in conjunction with Miami-Dade County government, each year organizes the Inter-American Conference of Mayors and Local Authorities which has become the largest and most important annual meeting for individuals concerned with the development and strengthening of local governance in Latin America. Typically, 450 people from virtually every country in Latin America participate.
Before coming to FIU, he was for seven years an Associate Professor of Policy Sciences at the University of Maryland, Baltimore Graduate School, where he directed the Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research, a state and local government oriented public policy research institute, and the Thomas M. Bradley Center for Employment and Training Policy and Research.
Prior to that, Dr. Rosenbaum served for three and a half years in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government where he worked very closely with state governments, local school districts and the Congress on the re-authorization of major pieces of education legislation. Previously, he had served on the faculty at the Universities of Connecticut and Wisconsin, Madison and held a research position at the University of Chicago and worked in state government in Illinois and local government in Miami, Florida.
Before assuming the Deanship at FIU, Professor Rosenbaum was actively involved in research, consulting and advocacy activities with state and local governments in the United States in a variety of fields including higher education, employment and training policy, economic development, elementary and secondary education, social welfare, urban development and science and technology policy.
For the past decade, Dr. Rosenbaum has been heavily engaged in international decentralization, public administration, legislative strengthening, and democratic development technical assistance, consulting and research. His most recent books include State Modernization and Decentralization – Implications for Education and Training in Public Administration (edited with Ludmila Gajdosova) and Healthcare Delivery Systems: Opportunities for Public Management Education in Central and Eastern Europe (edited with Juraj Nemec and Kenneth Tolo). Articles and monographs that he has authored have been published in eight languages and he has consulted, worked or spoken in over 60 countries in Asia, Africa, Eastern and Western Europe and Latin America. He is co-author, with a Swedish colleague, of Local Governance and Responding to Citizen’s Needs (both published by the United Nations). Dr. Rosenbaum has also prepared commissioned papers on issues of decentralization, democracy, economic development and civil society for major United Nations Conferences in Bucharest, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Stockholm and Marrakech.
Professor Rosenbaum has served as Chairperson of the international committees of both the American Society for Public Administration and the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration and as a member of the Executive Council of the latter organization. In addition, he has served as President and Vice President of and is currently on the Board of Management of the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration located in Brussels, Belgium.

Courses
The Practice of Public Management
Comparative/International Public Administration

Research
For the past decade, Dr. Rosenbaum has been heavily engaged in international decentralization, public administration, legislative strengthening, and democratic development technical assistance, consulting and research. His most recent books include State Modernization and Decentralization – Implications for Education and Training in Public Administration (edited with Ludmila Gajdosova) and Healthcare Delivery Systems: Opportunities for Public Management Education in Central and Eastern Europe (edited with Juraj Nemec and Kenneth Tolo). Articles and monographs that he has authored have been published in eight languages and he has consulted, worked or spoken in over 60 countries in Asia, Africa, Eastern and Western Europe and Latin America. He is co-author, with a Swedish colleague, of Local Governance and Responding to Citizen's Needs (both published by the United Nations). Dr. Rosenbaum has also prepared commissioned papers on issues of decentralization, democracy, economic development and civil society for major United Nations Conferences in Bucharest, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Stockholm and Marrakech.

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