Last Updated: Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Dean, School of Public Affairs and Administration
Executive Director, National Center for Public Performance
Finding ways for governments and organizations to work more efficiently is one of Marc Holzer’s passions.
Holzer, dean of the Rutgers School of Public Affairs and Administration,is a leading expert in performance measurement and public management. His primary research focus is in public sector productivity, a field he helped to establish. He is the founder and director of the National Center for Public Performance, a research and public service organization devoted to improving productivity and performance in the public sector. He also developed the E-Governance Institute, created to explore the on-going impact of the internet and other information technologies on the productivity and performance of the public sector, and how e-government fosters new and deeper citizen involvement within the governing process.
Holzer is founder and editor-in-chief of Public Performance and Management Review, which provides public administration practitioners and scholars with cutting-edge scholarship and research.
In fall 2003, Holzer was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, a non-profit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress to provide expert advice and analysis to government leaders on issues of governance and management. Holzer also is a Fellow of the World Academy of Productivity Science.
Holzer’s research has been recognized by both Rutgers and his peers. He was named a Rutgers Board of Governors Professor of Public Administration in 2006, and is a recipient of the university's Human Dignity Award. He received the Rutgers Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research (2001), and his national awards include the Charles H. Levine Memorial Award for Demonstrated Excellence in Teaching, Research and Service to the Community, 2000; the Donald Stone National ASPA Achievement Award, 1994; and the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration Excellence in Teaching Award, 1998.
He received the Presidential Leadership Award of the Conference of Minority Public Administrators in February 2006.
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