Thank You and Welcome Aboard!

• Published date: 01 January 2018
• Date: 01 January 2018
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/puar.12666

Thank You and Welcome Aboard! 11

Public Administration Review,

Vol. 78, Iss. 1, pp. 11–13. © 2018 by

The American Society for Public Administration.

DOI: 10.1111/puar.12666.

Thank You and Welcome Aboard!

We would like to acknowledge a number

of contributors for their past and future

service.

Departing Editorial Board Members

The PAR editorial team thanks 28 individuals who

have served on the Editorial Board for the past three

years. They have shown their support for the journal

by reviewing articles and providing feedback to the

editors about present and future plans. We recognize

the following individuals for their service: Claudia N.

Avellaneda, Lotte Bøgh Andersen, Lawrence Cooley,

Cristina Diaz, Angela M. Evans, Jane E. Fountain,

Beth Gazley, Marcelo Guigale, Tobin Im, John M.

Kamensky, Sung-Wook Kwon, Tad McGalliard, Ines

Mergel, J. Christopher Mihm, Sonia M. Ospina,

Regina Silvia Pacheco, Isabella Proeller, Edgar E.

Ramírez de la Cruz, P. S. Reddy, Sally Selden, Dan

Smith, Jill L. Tao, Antonio F. Tavares, Jeannette

Taylor, Manuel P. Teodoro, XiaoHu Wang, Jiannan

Wu, and Eric Zeemering.

New Editorial Board Members

We welcome 29 new Editorial Board members for

2017–19. We are excited about their participation in

the coming years.

Teodoro J. Benavides has served as senior lecturer in

the School of Social Sciences at the University of Texas

at Dallas since 2005, conveying decades of expertise in

city management, financial management, budgeting,

leadership, and community planning. Previously,

Benavides was city manager for the City of Dallas

from 1996 to 2004, directing a workforce of more

than 12,000 and overseeing the development and

expenditure of the city’s annual $1.9 billion budget.

Ann O’M. Bowman is professor in the Bush School

of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M

University. She holds the Hazel Davis and Robert

Kennedy Endowed Chair. Her research focuses on

U.S. state and local governments, ranging from

their management and policies to their interactions

with one another. She recently concluded a term

as president of the Southern Political Science

Association. Bowman is a fellow of the National

Academy of Public Administration.

Enrique Cabrero Mendoza holds a doctorate in

management science from HEC Paris. He founded

the journal Gestión y Política Pública and has written

and edited numerous books, articles, and book

chapters in Mexico, Europe, and the Americas. His

research interests include decentralization, public

policy, and local government. He is a level III member

of the National System of Researchers and currently

serves as general director of the National Council of

Science and Technology in Mexico.

Bianor Cavalcanti is international director of

Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) in Brazil and

president of the International Association of Schools

and Institutes of Public Administration. He is full

professor and former dean at the Brazilian School of

Public and Business Administration (EBAP-FGV).

Cavalcanti is a researcher and consultant throughout

the world in regional settings and holds degrees in

public administration from Virginia Tech (PhD),

the University of Southern California (MPA), and

EBAP-FGV (BPA). He is the author of The Equalizer

Manager: Structure and Action in the Public Sector,

published in four languages.

Dan Chenok is executive director of the IBM

Center for the Business of Government. He oversees

the center’s work and is an expert in technology,

cybersecurity, privacy, regulation, budget, acquisition,

and presidential transitions. He previously served as

branch chief for information policy and technology

in the Office of Management and Budget, where he

led oversight of federal information and information

technology policy. Chenok holds a bachelor’s degree

from Columbia University and a master’s degree from

Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

Nani Coloretti is senior vice president for business

and financial strategy at the Urban Institute. She

has more than 20 years of experience managing and