PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Fred Thompson
Grace and Elmer Goudy Professor of Public Management and
Policy, 1985 - present
Atkinson Graduate
School of Management
Willamette
University, Salem,
OR 97301
(503) 370-6228, FAX (503) 370-3011, Messages (503)
370-6440. Home
(503) 508-4229
E-mail fthompso@willamette.edu
SSRN
Director, Willamette Center
for Goverance and Public Policy Research
OTHER FACULTY EXPERIENCE
- Visiting Professor and
Scholar, MSC Program in Governance,
Organisations, and Management, LSE, Fall 2007; Graduate School of
Economics, Aomori Public College, Japan, Summers 1993 &
2000
- Columbia University, School of International
and Public Affairs, MPA Program: Associate Professor,
1981-1985.
- University of California, Los Angeles,
Anderson Graduate School of Management, Public and Not-for-Profit
Management Department: Visiting Associate Professor, 1979-1981
(Chair, 1980-1981).
- University of British Columbia, Faculty of
Commerce and Business Administration, Policy Analysis Division:
Assistant Professor, 1976-1977; Acting Associate Professor,
1977-78.
EDUCATION
PhD Claremont Graduate University, Center
for Politics and Economics, Claremont, California 1972
BA Pomona College, Claremont, California
1964.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Oregon Government Standards and Practices
Commission, 1995-1998.
Economic Council of Canada: Senior Research
Economist, 1978-79.
California Postsecondary Education Commission,
Associate Deputy Director for Finance and Capital Outlay Planning,
1975-76.
Department of Finance, State of California,
Assistant to Senior Program Analyst, December 1971 to April
1975.
CURRENT
CV (pdf), CURRENT
CV (MS doc)
PUBLICATION
LINKS
WORKING
PAPERS
ONLINE
PAPERS
CURRENT COURSES
Managerial
Economics and Finance [fall 06]
Advanced
Management Control
[na]
Public
Financial Management [fall
08]
International
Financial Management [spring
08]
International
Political Economy
[na]
International
and Comparative Public
Management
[na]
Seminar
in Public Budgeting: Cost-Benefit
Analysis [spring
09)
OTHER
- Association for Budgeting and
Financial Management Aaron B. Wildavsky Award for Lifetime
Contributions to Scholarship in Public Budgeting and Finance
2005
- National Assoociation of
Schools of Public Affairs and Administration/American Society for
Public Administration Distinguished
Research Award
2000
- Willamette University
President's Research Excellence Award 2000. AGSM Research Award
2007.
- Distinguished Guest New
Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants, February 1999.
- ANBAR Citation of Research
Excellence 1997.
- Willamette University AwardS
for Excellence in Teaching, 1995, 2006.
- Outstanding Author Award (Gold
Medal) of the American Society of Military Controllers,
1994.
- Public Administration Review's
William E. Mosher and Frederick C. Mosher Award, Best article by
an Academic, 1994.
- Fellow University of British
Columbia-Simon Fraser University Centre for the Study of
Government and Business, 1997-present.
- Visiting Fellow London School
of Economics Centre for the Study of Risk and Regulation,
2001-2003.
- Guest Lecturer, Air War College, 1991, and
Industrial College of the Armed Forces, 1992.
- Oregon Law Commission Work Group on Reforming
Public Finance Laws, 2004-present, Oregon Mayors' Association
Advisory Committee, 2000-2003, Oregon Public Charter School Task
Force, 1998-1999 ,Governor's Task Force on School Finance Reform
(Oregon) 1988-1989; Advisory Committee, California State Senate
Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, 1980-81;
Task Force on State Budgeting, National Center for Higher
Education Management Systems, 1975-6.
- Consultant: Canada - House of Commons,
Committee on Regulatory Reform, COMINCO, Ltd., Consulting and
Audit, Canada; New York - Attorney General's Office of Consumer
Affairs; Oregon - Public Utility Commission, Department of
Vocational Rehabilitation, Oregon Progress Board, Treasury
Department, PNITA; Office of Performance Improvements and
Management Reengineering, UNSECDEF (COMPTROLLER,) Defense
Secretary's Commission on Base Closure and Realignment,
Air Force
Materiel Command, Arthur Andersen
Office of Government Services, National Institute of Drug Abuse,
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Deputy Chief
Financial Officer's Council.
- Clara Ihrig Linhardt Traveling
Fellowship, Mexico and Central America, 1970-71.
- Included in
Who's Who in America,
Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in the West, Who's
Who in Finance and Industry,
others.
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