Public Administration Education in Latin America—Understanding Teaching in Context: An Introduction to the Symposium

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Nadia M Rubaii

Nadia Rubaii is associate professor of Public Administration in the College of Community and Public Affairs at Binghamton University, State University of New York. Her research interests focus on diversity, broadly defined, including pedagogies to develop cultural competence, human resource management practices to promote diversity, and municipal policies to integrate immigrant populations. She served as president of NASPAA in 2011–12 and currently serves on both the Executive Board and the Accreditation Committee of the InterAmerican Network for Public Administration Education (INPAE). In 2014 she will be a Fulbright Scholar in Colombia at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, where she will be studying the challenges of international accreditation of public affairs programs in Latin America.

Cristian Pliscoff

Cristian Pliscoff is director of the School of Government and Public Management in the Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Chile in Santiago. He holds a PhD in Public Administration from the University of Southern California. He is assistant professor, and his research interests are in public sector reform, public service motivation, public values in Latin America, and pedagogy and teaching techniques in public administration education. He is a member of the Executive Board of INPAE.