2013 Deil S. Wright Lecture
Save the date for the 2013 Deil S. Wright Lecture:
November 7, 2013
The event is free and open to the public. The Deil S. Wright Lecture is sponsored by the MPA Alumni Association and Fidelity Investments.
Past Lecturers
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2012 Lecture |
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Ray Mabus is the 75th secretary of the United States Navy. He leads America's Navy and Marine Corps and is responsible for an annual budget in excess of $150 billion and almost 900,000 people. Prior to joining the administration of President Barack Obama, Mabus served in a variety of top posts in government and the private sector. He was governor of Mississippi, ambasador to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and CEO of Foamex. |
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2011 Lecture |
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Erskine Bowles is co-chair of President Barack Obama’s bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. He has an extensive history in politics, serving as administrator of the Small Business Administration and White House chief of staff under President Bill Clinton. Mr. Bowles was also a member of the National Security Council and the National Economic Council. He served from 2005 to 2010 as president of the University of North Carolina system. |
| 2010 Lecture "Interrelationshipos Between Law and Public Administration" Walter Dellinger, Melveny & Myers, Washington, DC |
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Walter Dellinger, a visiting professor of law at Harvard University in 2010, was on leave from a professorship at Duke Law School. He has served in the White House as an advisor on constitutional issues, was assistant attorney general and head of the Office of Legal Counsel, and served as acting solicitor general for the US Supreme Court. |
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2009 Lecture |
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Patricia Wallace Ingraham is founding dean of the College of Community and Public Affairs at Binghamton University. A public policy expert and accompished academic researcher, Ingraham has also taught at the Maxwell School of Public Affairs at Syracuse University. |
| 2008 Lecture "Leadership and Innovation in a Changing World" James H. Svara, Arizona State University |
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James Svara is a professor in the School of Public Affairs and director of the Center for Urban Innovation at Arizona State University. He was also a professor of political science and public administration at North Carolina State University and association professor of political science at UNC-Greensboro. |
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2004 Lecture |
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2003 Lecture |
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| 2002 Lecture “Transition and Transformations: Challenges facing the US Government” David Walker, US General Accountability Office |
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The Deil S. Wright Lecture Series is hosted by the Master of Public Administration program at UNC-Chapel Hill and sponsored by Fidelity Investments and the MPA Alumni Association.
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