Professor Laurence E. Lynn Jr.
School of Social Service Administration
Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies
The University of Chicago
969 E. 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

Phone: (773) 702-1431
Fax: (773) 702-0874

Or

Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies
The University of Chicago
1155 E. 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

Phone: (773) 702-0851

Or

5000 South Cornell Avenue
Chicago, IL 60715

Phone: (773) 324-4220
Fax: (773) 324-5212

E-mail: llynn@midway.uchicago.edu

Ph.D. Yale University (Economics)

B.A. University of California, Berkeley

Mr. Lynn has been Professor of Social Service Administration and of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago since 1983. He served as Dean of the School of Social Service Administration (SSA) from 1983-1988. Formerly, Mr. Lynn was Professor of Public Policy and Chairman of the Public Policy Program at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He has also served on the faculty of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and as an academic visitor at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mr. Lynn has held senior positions with the U.S. federal government, including Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Economics and Resource Analysis); Director of Program Analysis at the National Security Council; Assistant Secretary (Planning and Evaluation), Department of Health, Education and Welfare; and Assistant Secretary (Program Development and Budget), Department of the Interior. He received the Secretary of Defense Meritorious Civilian Service Award and a Presidential Certificate of Distinguished Achievement. Subsequently, he has been a consultant to U.S. federal, state, and local agencies and foundations and to the Economic Development of the World Bank and has participated in the activities of many local community organizations. He has organized and served on the faculties of executive and management development institutes and seminars in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He currently directs the SSA Management Institute and its executive development programs as well as the Center for Urban Research and Policy Studies and its annual policy conference, the Chicago Assembly. He has chaired National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council committees on Child Development Research and Public Policy and on National Urban Policy and is currently a member of the NRC Committee on Education Finance: Equity, Adequacy, and Productivity.

Mr. Lynn is the author of The State and Human Services; Designing Public Policy; Managing the Public's Business; Managing Public Policy; and, his most recent, Public Management as Art, Science, and Profession (Chatham House, 1996). He is co-author of The President as Policy Maker and editor or co-editor of National Research Council publications Knowledge and Policy: The Uncertain Connection, Urban Change and Poverty, and Inner-City Poverty in the United States. He has published numerous articles on his primary research interests: public policy analysis and planning, the strategic management of public bureaucracies, and social welfare policy and administration. He is a winner of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management's Vernon Prize and is the journal's book review editor. He is currently conducting research on public choice theory as applied to the management of public bureaucracies; the executive function in government: the governance of human services provision, in particular, mental health services, child welfare, and public education; and on the role of formal authority in governance.

Mr. Lynn is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University. He is past president of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (and is currently a member of its policy council), a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.