Suzanne Piotrowski

Suzanne J. Piotrowski is Deputy Dean and Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers University-Newark.  She earned a Ph.D. in political science from School of Public Affairs at American University, Washington, D.C. and a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Delaware.  For the 2009/2010 academic year she held the position of Faculty Fellow in the Office of the Chancellor. 

Professor Piotrowski is immediate past chair of the American Society for Public Administration’s Section on Ethics and Integrity of Governance.  She founded and moderates the International Transparency and Secrecy Research Network listserv.  She served as the conference chair and founder of the 1st Global Conference on Transparency Research (Rutgers University-Newark, May 2011).  She has consulted with the World Bank Institute on an evaluation of Thailand’s Official Information Act and with the Carter Center on a project assessing how access to information differentially affects women.  She currently serves as the independent assessor of the United States national action plan for the Open Government Partnership.

Dr. Piotrowski’s research focuses on nonmission-based values in public administration, including administrative transparency and ethics.  She authored the book Governmental Transparency in the Path of Administrative Reform, the State of University of New York Press (2007).  In 2010, Lexington Books published Piotrowski’s latest volume Governmental Transparency and Secrecy: Linking Literature and Contemporary Debate.