Trevor Brown

Trevor Brown currently serves as the dean of the John Glenn College of Public Affairs and Special Advisor to the Provost at The Ohio State University, where he has been a faculty member since 2001. He also formerly served as the executive director of the State of Ohio Leadership Institute, a training resource for state and local elected officials in Ohio. He previously held the position of Pasqual Maragall Chair Visiting Professor at the University of Barcelona’s Department of Economic Policy and a visiting assistant professor position in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. Additionally, he served as the U.S. project manager and associate project executive for the Parliamentary Development Project, a U.S. Agency for International Development-funded organization that provided technical assistance to the Ukrainian parliament from 1994-2013. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.

Brown’s research focuses on public-private partnerships and how governments organize to deliver goods and services to citizens, and when governments elect to contract service delivery, how they manage the relationship with the vendor. He teaches undergraduate, graduate professional, doctoral, and executive education courses on managing and leading public sector organizations, public sector organizational strategy, organizational theory, and democratic transition.