Donald F. Kettl Awarded 2007 Stockberger Achievement Award by the International Public Management Association for Human Resources
November 2007
The International Public Management Association for Human Resources (IPMA-HR) has named Donald F. Kettl, Stanley I. Sheerr Endowed Term Professor in the Social Sciences, Professor of Political Science and Director of Penn’s Fels Institute of Government, winner of the 2007 Stockberger Achievement Award.
The Stockberger Achievement Award is presented annually by the IPMA-HR to recognize a person who has made an outstanding contribution toward the improvement of human resource management at any level of government. It is named in memory of Warner W. Stockberger, a pioneer and leader in federal personnel administration. The award was presented to Kettl this fall during the Association’s International Training Conference in Chicago.
Kettl’s research focuses on public policy and public administration, and he has published a wide range of articles and books, including System Under Stress: Homeland Security and American Politics and The Transformation of Governance: Public Administration for the 21st Century — both of which won the National Academy of Public Administration’s Louis Brownlow Book Award for the best book in public administration. Kettl has consulted broadly for government organizations at all levels around the world. He also serves as Nonresident Senior Fellow at Washington’s Brookings Institution, executive director of the Century Foundation’s Project on Federalism and Homeland Security, and Academic Coordinator of the Government Performance Project, a multi-year effort financed by the Pew Charitable Trusts to assess the performance of the American states.
IPMA-HR represents the interests of human resource professionals at the federal, state and local levels of government, and organization members include all levels of public-sector HR professionals. The organization’s goal is to help HR professionals increase their job performance and overall agency function.