Transylvanian International Conference
in Public Administration

3rd-5th October 2024

Local Organizing Committee

International organizing committee: 

  • Eka Akobia, Professor and Dean, Caucasus School of Governance at Caucasus University; President, NISPAcee.
  • Maria Aristigueta, Charles P. Messick Professor of Public Administration, University of Delaware, US.   
  • Matthew Auer, Dean of the School of Public and International Affairs Arch Professor of Public and International Affairs, UGA, US
  • Emil Boc, mayor of Cluj-Napoca city and former prime minister of Romania.  
  • Geert Bouckaert, Professor, KU Leuven Public Governance Institute (Faculty of Social Sciences) of the KU Leuven, at Leuven, Belgium; Member Kuratorium of KDZ Zentrum für Verwaltungsforschung (Administration Research Centre), Vienna, Austria; Honorary Professor at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) of the University College London (UCL); Member of the IIAS Council of Administration (International Institute of Administrative Sciences) as Immediate Past President. 
  • Trevor Brown, Dean of the John Glenn College of Public Affairs, Ohio State University, US
  • Taco Brandsen, professor and chair, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands, and secretary general, European Association for Public Administration Accreditation.
  • Charles Nelson Davis, Professor and dean, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia, US. 
  • Jean-Michel Eymeri-Douzans, Exceptional Class Professor and Vice-Rector of international relations at Sciences Po Toulouse, France; President of the European Group for Public Administration (EGPA/ GEAP), IIAS/IISA, Brussels.
  • Wolfgang Drechsler, Professor of Governance at TalTech’s Ragnar Nurkse Department for Innovation and Governance, Honorary Professor of University College London in the Institute of Innovation and Public Purpose, Adjunct Professor of Universitas Indonesia at the Faculty of Administrative Sciences, and Associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.
  • Ľudmila Gajdošová, Executive Director, Nispacee
  • Gyorgy Hajnal, Professor, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary and ELKH Centre for Social Sciences (Hungarian Academy of Sciences). 
  • Diana Iancu, Associate professor and Dean, Faculty of Public Administration, National School of Political and Administrative Studies (SNSPA), Bucharest, Romania.
  • Karen Johnston, Professor and Associate Dean Research and Innovation, University of Portsmouth, UK.
  • Veronica Junjan, Director, Public Administration Programmes, Behavior, Management and Social Sciences Faculty, University of Twente, The Netherlands
  • Ivan Kopric, Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb
  • Sabine Kuhlmann, Professor at Universität Potsdam, Germany, Editor-in-Chief of International Review of Administrative Sciences
  • Paul Joyce, associate at INLOGOV, University of Birmingham, UK; a Visiting Professor in Public Management at Leeds Beckett University, and Publications Director of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS) headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. 
  • Arno Loessner, professor emeritus, University of Delaware, US. 
  • Patrizia Magaro, Professor, University of Genoa
  • Fabienne Maron, IIAS Scientific Director
  • Andrew Massey Professor and Academic Director, International School for Government King’s College London, UK; Editor in Chief of the journal International Review of Administrative Sciences). 
  • Tetsuo Morishita, Vice President, Sophia University, Tokyo 
  • Amanda Murdie, Department Head, Department of International Affairs, Georgia Athletic. Association Professor, School of Public and International Affairs, UGA, US. 
  • Juraj Nemec, Professor, Masaryk University, Czech Republic; past president of NISPACee and editor-in-chief, NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy.
  • Mihaela Onofrei, Professor, Al. I. Cuza University, Iași, Romania.  
  • Razvan Papuc, Professor and Vice-Rector, University of Bucharest, Romania.  
  • Marian Preda, Professor and Rector, University of Bucharest, Romania. 
  • Constantin Marius Profiroiu, Professor and Vice-Rector for International Affairs, Academy of Economic Studies (ASE), Bucharest, Romania.  
  • Tom Reichert, Dean, College of Information and Communications, University of South Carolina, US. 
  • Allan Rosenbaum, Professor, Public Administration and Director, Institute for Public Management and Center for Democracy and Good Governance, Florida International University; Vice Chairperson, United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration; Chairperson, International Commission on the Accreditation of Public Administration Education and Training Programs – IASIA.
  • Hirofumi Takada, Vice President / Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Tokyo 
  • Sarolta A. Takács, Dean, Humanities and Social Sciences, College of Staten Island – CUNY, NY
  • Laszlo Vass, Rector Emeritus and University Professor, Budapest Metropolitan University, Hungary. 
  • Cristian Vlad, Professor, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan 
  • Tudor Vlad, Executive Director, James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication University of Georgia, US. 
  • Joseph Watson Jr., Carolyn Caudell Tieger Professor of Public Affairs Communications, Advertising & Public Relations, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia, US. 
  • Bradley E Wright, Professor and Department Head, Department of Public Administration and Policy, School of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia, US. 

Local organizers

  • Dan Lazar, Professor and Vice Rector, Babes Bolyai University, Romania.
  • Calin Hintea, Prof. and Dean, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babes Bolyai University, Romania.
  • Roger Hamlin, Michigan State University professor emeritus, associate dean for international affairs at FSPAC/Babes Bolyai University, Romania. 
  • Cristina Hințea, Assoc. prof., Public Administration and Management Department, Babes Bolyai University, Romania; associate editor Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences.    
  • Bogdana Neamtu, Assoc. prof.  and Chair, Public Administration and Management Department, Babes Bolyai University, Romania. 
  • Bianca Radu, Assoc. prof., Public Administration and Management Department, Babes Bolyai University, Romania.
  • Dorin Spoaller, Assoc. prof., Department of Communication, PR, Advertising, Babes Bolyai University, Romania. 
  • Nicolae Urs, Associate prof. and Vice-dean, Public Administration and Management Department, Babes Bolyai University, Romania.   

Please feel free to contact any of the local organizers for further details or for assistance with visas and traveling at the following email address neamtu@fspac.ro

Draft schedule

The final program will be published soon.

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TICPA, Cluj-Napoca, Romania