Dr. Julia
Melkers
Julia Melkers is Associate Professor of
Public Administration in the College of Urban Planning and
Public Affairs at the University
of Illinois at Chicago and co-director of the Science and Technology
Research Group at UIC. Dr. Melkers' work addresses the development
and use of performance measurement and evaluation processes in
public organizations. Her teaching and research interests are
in the areas of public management, outcomes evaluation and science
and technology-based government programs. Dr. Melkers has conducted
performance measurement-related work for the governments of Mexico
and Latvia, the National Research Council, the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, the states of Georgia, Maine,
Rhode Island and Alaska, the City of Atlanta, and the Atlanta
Urban League. She has conducted performance measurement and strategic
planning training in the US, Europe and Mexico. She currently
serves on an advisory board to the Kentucky EPSCoR program as
a metrics advisor. Together with colleagues, she is writing a
book on R&D evaluation methods, The New Generation
of R&D
Evaluation Methods: A Cross-National Review of Performance Measurement,
to be published by Edward Elgar in 2006. Her publications may
be found in journals such as Public Administration Review, Urban
Studies Review, Policy Studies Journal, Public
Budgeting and Finance, Journal of Public Administration
Research and Theory,
Journal of Technology Transfer and Evaluation and Program
Planning.
She received her PhD in Public Administration from the Maxwell
School at Syracuse University in 1993.
