<a href="http://www.thoughtforaction.org/gary-j-reid/gary-j-reid/" rel="attachment wp-att-227"><img class="size-full wp-image-227 alignleft" alt="Gary J. Reid" src="http://www.thoughtforaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Gary-J.-Reid.jpeg" width="200" height="200" /></a>An institutional reform specialist, having spent twenty years working for the World Bank, most recently as Lead Public Sector Management Specialist at the World Bank, where he served as Coordinator for the World Bank’s Administrative and Civil Service Reform Thematic Group.  He has taught at Tufts University, American University, SAIS and the University of Southern California, where he was Associate Professor of Public Administration prior to joining the World Bank in 1991.  In his work at the World Bank, he has worked with governments throughout Latin America and the Caribbean as well as Central and Eastern Europe, as well as in Africa and Asia, in the design and implementation of major public administration reform programs, most recently in Cambodia, Afghanistan, Albania, Romania, Macedonia and Sierra Leone.

Dr. Reid has published widely on human resource management, public administration reform, collective decision-making processes, and income and asset declaration issues.  He has also authored numerous technical notes used widely by World Bank staff and clients, on human resource management issues, monitoring of the design, implementation and performance of specific governance systems (such as personnel management systems), and how to address the typical implementation challenges of public administration reform in developing countries.

Dr. Reid received his Ph.D. in Urban Planning from Harvard University.  He has served on the Board of Editors of <i>Public Administration Review</i>, received the Henry Scoville Award for distinguished research and service in public administration in1989, and was elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration in 2007, a body created by an Act of the United States Congress to provide independent, non-partisan advice on public administration issues (<a href="http://www.napawash.org ">www.napawash.org </a>), where he is a member of the Academy’s International Standing Panel.

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