Program Faculty
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Public Administration, and International Affairs; Co-Director, GW Regulatory Studies Center
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Amsterdam Professor of Public Service and Economics and Director of the PhD Program
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Associate Director; Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration
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Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs
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Co-Director, GW Regulatory Studies Center; Associate Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration, Trachtenberg School
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Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration, and Economics
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Professor of Economics, Public Policy and Public Administration, and International Affairs; Co-Director, GW Regulatory Studies Center
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Distinguished Professor of Practice, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy & Public Administration
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Associate Teaching Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration and Director of the Master of Arts in Environmental and Sustainability Policy (MA-ESP)
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Associate Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration
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MPP and MPA Program Director; Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration
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Professor of the Practice of International Affairs; Director, Space Policy Institute
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Professor of Political Science, and Public Policy and Public Administration
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Associate Professor of Public Policy and Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies
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Director, Trachtenberg School and Stephen Joel Trachtenberg Professor in Public Service
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Director, Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute and Associate Professor of Public Policy & Public Administration and Sociology
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Professor of Economics and International Affairs / Director, Center for International Science and Technology Policy / Program Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy
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Professorial Lecturer and Interim Director, George Washington Institute of Public Policy and Co-Director, Center for Washington Area Studies