Fields of study: International development, international relations, comparative politics

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1 MARY E. HILDERBRAND Senior Lecturer, Public Service and Administration Department Distinguished Practitioner in Residence The Bush School of Government and Public Service Texas A&M University Contact Information Bush School of Government and Public Service Texas A&M University 4220 TAMU 1039 Allen Building College Station, TX Telephone: (979) Education PhD, Political Science, Harvard University MA, Social Studies, Harvard University BA, Political Science, University of California, Berkeley; Phi Beta Kappa Fields of study: International development, international relations, comparative politics Research interests Politics of economic reform, institutional capacity, development cooperation, reform of the state, research-policy linkages, and the role of politics and governance in development. Particular interests currently include open government initiatives, participatory processes in public policy, and health care service delivery capacity at community level. Current position Senior Lecturer, Department of Public Service and Administration, and Distinguished Practitioner in Residence, George H.W. Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University, started January Teaching comparative governance and public management to masters students of public policy; helping to develop international engagements and programs for the department and school. Experience Associate Professor and Head of Politics, Governance and Policy Process Area, School of Government and Public Policy Indonesia, October 2012-September 2014 Curriculum, faculty, and program development for new school of public policy; teaching in masters programs. Contracted as an independent consultant.

2 Fellow in International Development, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. July 2000-February Program development and management, teaching, and research in international development, public sector reform and institutions, public policy and management education, politics of reform, and development assistance. Based in Center for International Development, Harvard University. Major responsibilities and selected experience: Director and co-principal Investigator, Kennedy School Mexico Program. February January Led the collaboration of Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) with the Escuela de Graduados en Administración Pública (EGAP) of the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM). Designed and directed program of assistance with academic and institutional development of public administration masters program. Planned and worked with staff to carry out program of linkage activities including a visiting scholar program, student programs, case development, collaborative research, and conferences. Worked with EGAP faculty and leadership and with HKS faculty, administration, and students. Participated in joint research. Organized joint research projects, conferences, and related activities in microfinance, poverty and poverty alleviation strategies, public policy for human rights, and public sector reform. Managed $1.2 million annual budget. Director and Principal Investigator, Assistance to Masters Programs, Catholic University of Bolivia, As a continuation of the earlier HIID program with Catholic University, led a relationship between HKS and the Maestrías para el Desarrollo (MpD) in La Paz. Made occasional visits to work with faculty and students, arranged workshops and conferences, served as liaison between MpD and HKS Executive Education for participation of their top students in HKS programs. Director, Latin American University Regulation and Infrastructure Network (LAURIN). November 2000-June Coordinated the Kennedy School s participation in a program funded by the Inter-American Development Bank under which HKS provided technical advice to, assisted in the development of, and participated in a university network on infrastructure privatization, regulation, and finance. Worked with program faculty in five Latin American universities (in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru) on the development of relevant executive education programs, including advising them on curriculum, teaching approaches, and case development. Organized workshops; participated in case development. Was responsible for day-to-day management of HKS effort and communication with other network members and IDB. Team Leader and Principal Investigator, Review of Technical Cooperation for Capacity Development Coordinated six country studies of development assistance during the 1990s for the United Nations Development Programme. Countries studied included Bangladesh, Bolivia, Egypt, Kyrgyz Republic, the Philippines, and Uganda. Designed research framework, organized research workshops, consulted with researchers during research process, and wrote synthesis of findings. Participated in international roundtables in 2

3 Geneva, Turin, and Accra, Ghana. Part of a larger international review of technical cooperation to support effort at reform and improvement. Associate, Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), Cambridge, Massachusetts. July 1993 June Development project management, research, teaching, and proposal development. Emphasis on issues of capacity development, public sector institutions, and public policy education. Selected experience: Development of Public Policy Program in Bolivia Served as Cambridge-based director of a USAID-funded project to establish a masters program in public policy at the Catholic University of Bolivia. Coordinated the work of HIID and its subcontractors in designing and implementing programs and in providing consultants, equipment, and resources for research and teaching. Worked with resident team to ensure institutionalization and effective technology transfer. Responsible for overseeing financial and contractual aspects of the 5-year, $4 million project. Carried out regular field visits. Strategic Assessment of International Development Studies in the UK. November December As part of a two-person team, carried out an institutional assessment of the international development studies research and education sector in the UK for the British government s Department for International Development (DFID). Analyzed the sector s institutional and funding situation, contributions, and major challenges. Conducted interviews with directors and faculty of 25 development studies institutions and surveyed institutions, researchers, and selected non-british institutions. Prepared report that provided guidelines for funding and recommendations for strengthening quality and sustainability. Report served as the basis for policy changes regarding the relationship between DFID and development studies institutions, as well as funding levels and approaches. Project Director, UNDP Pilot Study of Capacity Building Led and managed a multi-country research project on public sector capacity building for the United Nations Development Programme. Directed the research and production of six country case studies (Ghana, Tanzania, Central African Republic, Morocco, Sri Lanka, and Bolivia). Worked with a team to design the research; coordinated and supervised the work of six national researchers; conducted field visits to all six countries; organized project workshops and seminars for training consultants and discussing the research; co-authored comparative and analytical sections of final report. Worked with the UNDP to disseminate the report. The report presented a framework for strategic analysis of capacity building needs and constraints. Teaching Appointments Senior Lecturer, Public Service Administration Department, Bush School, Texas A&M. Teaching Governance and Institutional Reform, Comparative Public Administration and Management; leading capstone project. January 2015-curent. 3

4 Associate Professor, and Area Head for Politics, Governance, and Policy Process, School of Government and Public Policy (SGPP)- Indonesia. Taught Creating Public Value: Distributed Governance, Performance, and Accountability in masters program; worked with field research projects (including a field study in Chennai, India); advised and evaluated thesis research Member of Faculty, Masters of Public Affairs, Sciences-Po, Paris. Taught required course in Comparative Public Management for all first-year students in international masters program Co-chair, Public Policy Challenges: Analysis, Applications, and Strategies. Two-week intensive summer course offered by HKS for Mexican MPA students under agreement with ITESM. In June 2011, developed, coordinated, and helped teach course on US-Mexico Relations and Drug War Policy. In earlier years, coordinated and helped to design and teach courses focused on the following policy topics: microfinance (2004), energy policy (2005, 2008), poverty in southern states of Mexico (2006), information technology and innovations in government (2007), urban poverty (2009), and public-private partnerships (2010). Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, International Development: Theory and Policy (Core course in development at masters level, taught annually to mixture of mid-career and entry-level masters students) Visiting Instructor, Political Science Department and African Studies Center, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, Introduction to the Emerging Nations Political Economy of African Development African Independence and Underdevelopment Visiting Instructor, Government Department, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, Fall 1985 Introduction to Comparative Politics Politics of Africa Executive Education Teaching Faculty, Advanced Inter-American Program on Policy Innovation and Management, one-week program delivered by the McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University. Taught sessions and worked with participants on presentations. Program sponsored primarily by the Organization of American States. June Faculty, Leadership Academy for Development, Stanford University. As part of 3-person team, taught a one-week program for East African public officials, in collaboration with Strathmore University, Nairobi Kenya, May Will teach in similar program in February 2016 in Bangkok, Thailand, in cooperation with the National Institute of Development Administration. Co-leader of workshop on case teaching for faculty of the Government and Public Policy Network (GPPN), Paris. May Co-leader of case teaching and case writing workshops for faculty and doctoral students in public policy programs, at EGAP-ITESM, Catholic University of Bolivia, in Universidad de la Plata (Argentina), and University of Sao Paulo. Various dates,

5 Co-chair, Meeting the Challenge of Mexico s Future: Leadership and Performance Strategies, Harvard Kennedy School. Two-week intensive executive education program for Mexican government and private sector leaders. Designed curriculum, put together faculty, taught in program. Annually, ; Instructor, other HKS Executive Education programs. Taught sessions on effective governance, public management, capacity development, political management of organizational change, and delivery of basic services to the poor. Infrastructure in a Market Economy, July ; Executive Leadership Development for Pakistan, February 2005; Palestinian Leadership in Development: Managing Political and Economic Transition, August (Held in Athens, Greece) Research Appointments/Affiliations Associate, Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2012-present Research Associate, Latin American and Iberian Institute, University of New Mexico, ; present Associate, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Visiting Scholar, Political Science Department and the African Studies Center, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Summer 1985, Spring 1986 Consulting Commissioned to write paper on governance and institutions in relation to the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals. Copenhagen Consensus Center, Commissioned to write paper on public management reform, as part of project on public sector reform in Bolivia, for Maestrías para el Desarrollo, Catholic University of Bolivia, and the Netherlands Cooperation-Bolivia. Presented paper at seminar, Toward a More Efficient Public Sector, La Paz, June Consultant, Public Sector Reform Roadmap and Study on Governance in the Bahamas, Inter- American Development Bank (IDB). Designed a study of governance in the Bahamas for the IDB and the Government of the Bahamas and did groundwork to launch study. The purpose was to provide a framework for an effort to modernize the public sector. April-May, 2005; December March Team member, Strategic Analysis for Development Assistance, Harvard Institute for International Development/Kennedy School of Government, in collaboration with the Center for Economic Growth and Agricultural Development, US Agency for International Development. As part of team charged with developing guidelines for USAID s Country Development Assistance Strategies, had responsibility with one other team member for sections on politics and governance. Jointly produced framework, wrote background analysis, produced guidelines, and identified appropriate data for integrating concerns with political and governance factors into economic development strategy. May- December

6 Commissioned to write chapter for book on capacity building for poverty reduction, with reference to UN system efforts. United Nations Division of Economic and Social Affairs, February Researcher, Applied Research on Child Health project, HIID Health Group. Carried out research on the role of research in child health programs in Pakistan, with focus on diarrheal disease, acute respiratory infection, and iodine deficiency. Conducted field research, interviewing program directors, other health ministry officials, researchers, and leaders of research institutions. Produced report Technical expert, Workshop on National Capacity Development, United Nations Development Programme, Regional Bureau for Africa and Management Development Programme, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, October 1997 Consultant, United Nations Development Programme-Nicaragua. Advised UNDP team regarding a proposed governance project in Central America to build leadership capacity, foster networks of leaders of government, the private sector, and civil society, and provide masters-level training. Held discussions with project team; representatives of the international community; and local leaders. Managua, April 1996 Workshop leader, Capacity Building: Premises and Practices, Workshop on Management of Development, International Training Centre of the ILO. Trained teams of developing country trainers and managers. Revised curriculum for the module. Turin, Italy, October 1995, January and May, Professional Activities Panelist, The Effect of the US Elections on US-Mexico Relations, ITESM Annual Book Fair, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, October Moderator, public event sponsored by Strategic Review featuring Joe Studwell, How Asia Works, Ministry of Trade, Republic of Indonesia, October Panelist, The Development of Policy Studies in Indonesia: Issues and Trends, Symposium on Public Policy Research and Education in Indonesia, sponsored by the Rajawali Foundation. Gave presentation on Research into Policy: A Policy Process Angle. Jakarta, September Invited participant, Asia Public Policy Forum: Poverty, Inequality, and Social Protection in Asia, sponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School, held in Jakarta, Indonesia, May Participant, APPAM International Conference, Collaboration among Government, Market, and Society: Forging Partnerships and Encouraging Competition, held at Fudan University, Shanghai, China, May Panelist for book presentation, Transformación, lo mismo de siempre, o progreso lento y con tropiezos? Reformas recientes al Sector Público en México (Transformation, Business as Usual, or Slow Fitful Progress? Recent Public Sector Reforms in Mexico), ITESM-Santa Fe campus, Mexico City, October Participant and co-sponsor, Working Group on Transnational Organized Crime, sessions on drawing from the experience of the US, Colombia, Italy and Guatemala for seeking effective responses to violence and drug-trafficking organizations in Mexico. Participants included US, Mexican, and other 6

7 international law-enforcement officials, prosecutors, analysts, and legal scholars. Harvard Law School, April and October Discussant, Reforms in Critical Areas, in Public Sector Reforms in Mexico, Recent Experience and Perspectives, Joint EGAP-HKS symposium, Mexico City, April Led workshop on teaching with cases for faculty of Catholic University of Bolivia; taught class sessions for undergraduates on poverty and local economic development; and taught class sessions for masters students on policy analysis. La Paz, Catholic University of Bolivia, March Discussant, Dilemmas of Public Organizations in the 21 st Century: Why a Professional Civil Service? for The Professional Civil Service in the Modernization of the Mexican State, seminar organized by the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) of the Federal Government of Mexico and the Graduate School of Public Administration, ITESM, Mexico City, August Panelist, Roundtable: Incorporating Foreign Experience/Exchange into Public Policy and Public Administration Education, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM), Washington, D.C., November Chair, The Determinants and Design of Development Policy: Trade, Aid, and Governance, APPAM, Washington, D.C., November Discussant, Increasing Transparency and Public Information Access, in Improving Government: Mexico s Experience with Government Reform, in International Context, workshop cosponsored by HKS and EGAP. Mexico City, October Discussant, Organization of Public Utilities: Recent Reforms and Perspectives for the Next Decade, sponsored by the Latin American Universities Regulation and Infrastructure Network and the Fondación de Investigación Económica Latinoamericana (FIEL), Buenos Aires, August Discussant, Privatization and Poverty in Peru: Results and Challenges, panel for Advances and Challenges in the Provision of Infrastructure in Latin America, conference organized by the Latin American Universities Regulation and Infrastructure Network and Universidad del Pacífico, Lima, Peru, October Guest speaker, Second Meeting of the Committee of Experts on Public Administration, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations. Gave presentation, Supporting Capacity Development: Lessons from Country Studies. New York, February Organized conference, Is There a Future for Private Utilities in Latin America? David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge. May Grant recipient, U.S. State Department Speaker and Specialist Grant, for a visit to Paraguay focused on state reform and the possible establishment of a public policy masters program. Met with government and university leaders. Presented lecture The Reform of the State: It is Possible, sponsored by the Catholic University of Paraguay and CADEP, an economic policy think-tank. June Presentation, Politics of African Economic Performance, Faculty/Student Reading Group on Economic Development in Africa, Harvard Law School, April

8 Reviewer, book and article manuscripts, for Lynne Rienner Publishers, St. Martin s, International Political Science Association, Governance, International Studies Quarterly, Public Administration and Development, various dates. Panelist, International Development Careers, Non-Academic Careers for Ph.D.s, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, 1999 or Presentation, The Role of Research in Health Policy: The Pakistan Case, National Consultation on Health Research in Development, sponsored by the Pakistan Medical Research Council, Islamabad, November Co-chair, Conference on Governance, Poverty Eradication, and Social Policy. Organized an international conference that brought together academics and practitioners, jointly sponsored by HIID and the UNDP, November Presentation of study, Building Sustainable Capacity: Challenges for the Public Sector, OECD/DAC Informal Network on Technical Cooperation, Working Group on Institutional Development/ Capacity Development, hosted by GTZ, Eschborn, Germany, May 1995 Selected Committee and Other Service Chair, McGrew Prize Committee, PSAA Department, Bush School, Member, Admissions Committee, Masters in Public Administration, Harvard Kennedy School, Member, Fulbright Evaluation Committee, Harvard College, Recruiter and interviewer, HKS, especially for the mid-career Mason Program, in various countries, including Bolivia, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Ghana, Tanzania, and Sri Lanka, and by telephone, Academic advisor for selected MPP and MPA students, HKS, Academic advisor for selected Lee Kuan Yew Fellows (mid-career masters students from National University of Singapore), HKS, Presentation on Political and Economic Development policy area of concentration, New Admit Day, HKS, annually, April Professional Affiliations International Studies Association American Political Science Association Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management 8

9 Publications Transformación, lo mismo de siempre, o progreso lento y con tropiezos? Reformas recientes al Sector Público en México (Transformation, Business as Usual, or Slow Fitful Progress? Recent Public Sector Reforms in Mexico), edited book (with Miguel Angel Valverde Loya), Mexico City: Miguel Angel Porrua, La política pública del proceso de reforma gubernamental en México ( The Public Policy of Government Reform in Mexico ), introductory chapter (with Valverde Loya) in Transformación, lo mismo de siempre, o progreso lento y con tropiezos? Reformas recientes al Sector Público en México, Through the Glass Darkly: Reflecting on Bolivia, (with Merilee Grindle), ReVista, Fall 2011/Winter 2012, pp Overview: Meeting the Capacity Development Challenge: Lessons for Improving Technical Cooperation, in Developing Capacity through Technical Cooperation: Country Experiences, edited by Stephen Browne, London: Earthscan Publications, Capacity Building for Poverty Reduction: Reflections on Evaluations of UN System Efforts, in Capacity Building for Poverty Eradication: Analysis of, and Lessons From, Evaluations of UN System Support to Countries Efforts, edited by Roger Maconick, New York: United Nations, Capacity Building, in Handbook on Development Policy and Management, edited by Colin Kirkpatrick, Ron Clarke and Charles Polidano, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2002, pp The Role of Research in Child Health Policy and Programs in Pakistan (with Jonathan Simon and Adnan Hyder), in Lessons in Research to Action and Policy: Case Studies from Seven Countries, COHRED issues paper, Geneva: Council on Health Research for Development, November HIID s Educational Mission: Teaching, Training, and Public Policy Programs (with John Thomas), Assisting Development in a Changing World: the Harvard Institute for International Development, , edited by Dwight Perkins, Cambridge: HIID, Building Sustainable Capacity in the Public Sector: What Can Be Done? (with Merilee Grindle), Public Administration and Development, Vol. 15, no. 5 (December 1995). Also in Getting Good Government: Capacity Building in the Public Sectors of Developing Countries, edited by Merilee Grindle, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, June Intervening to Build Public Sector Capacity: When? Where? How? (with Merilee Grindle), International Journal of Technical Cooperation, Vol. 1, no. 2 (Winter 1995). Dissertation Crisis, Constraints, and State-Society Relations: The Politics of African Economic Adjustment in the 1980s, Department of Government, Harvard University,

10 Teaching Cases Water for El Alto: Expanding Water and Sanitation Coverage for the Poor, Infrastructure in a Market Economy, HKS, Commissioned Studies and Reports Governance and Institutions: Effective, Accountable, and Inclusive Institutions, core paper on governance targets written for the Copenhagen Consensus Center as part of the Post-2015 Consensus project. January Making Government Work Better in Developing Countries, chapter in Hacia un Sector Público Más Eficiente, La Paz: Catholic University of Bolivia. (Written as paper for seminar in Bolivia, sponsored by the Netherlands Cooperation, 2006.) The Development Studies Sector in the United Kingdom: Challenges for the New Millennium (with Merilee Grindle). Prepared for the Economic and Social Research Management Unit, Department for International Development, Government of the United Kingdom. HIID, September Building Sustainable Capacity: Challenges for the Public Sector (with Merilee Grindle). Report prepared for the United Nations Development Programme, Pilot Study of Capacity Building (INT/92/676). Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), November Overseas Experience Project field visits, consulting assignments, conferences, and research: Argentina, the Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Canada, Central African Republic, Chile, China, Colombia, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Tanzania, United Kingdom 10