Barry Bozeman

Barry Bozeman is Regents' Professor Emeritus and Arizona Centennial Professor of Technology Policy and Public Management and founding director emeritus of the Center of Organization Research and Design. Positions prior to ASU include Regents' Professor and Ander Crenshaw Endowed Chair of Public Policy, University of Georgia; Regents’ Professor of Public Policy and Founding Director, School of Public Policy, Georgia Tech; Professor of Public Administration at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University.

 Bozeman's research focuses on public management, public values, science and technology policy, and higher education policy. He is the author or co-author of 20 books including most recently "Science Competes:  Informing Public Policy in a Time of Distrust, Political Fracture, and Information Chaos" (MIT Press, to appear 2025).  Other books include "Public Value Innovation" (Elgar Press, to appear 2025), with John P. Nelson,  "Public Values Leadership" (Johns Hopkins University, 2021), with Michael Crow, "Strength in Numbers: Research Collaboration Effectiveness" (Princeton University Press,  2017), with Jan Youtie, and "Public Values and Public Interest" (Georgetown University Press, 2007). The latter book won the American Political Science Association’s Herbert Simon Award for best book published in public administration and public affairs. Bozeman’s "All Organizations Are Public" (Jossey-Bass, 1987) helped establish a new research and theory approach to “publicness.” Professor Bozeman’s research articles have appeared in every major U.S. journal in the fields of public policy and public administration and his research has been summarized in several publications, including Nature, Times of London, Nature Medicine, Science, Chronicle of Higher Education and New York Times, among others.

Bozeman is an elected fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement Science and the National Academy of Public Administration.  Awards received include the Charles Levine Memorial Award of the American Society for Public Administration; the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration research award; and the the 2013 Public Management Research Association’s H. George Frederickson Award for lifetime achievements and contributions to public management research.

Science and technology policy consulting in the US includes work with the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, EPA, Internal Revenue Service, and S&T agencies in other nations, including France, Japan, China, South Africa, Argentina, New Zealand, Australia, Spain, Finland, Denmark, and Norway.

Non-academic interests include: music (jazz and blues); hiking and biking; both classic and trashy novels; nearly every imaginable sport, but especially baseball; military and political history; cooking; planet saving.