Matthew Auer

Matthew Auer is Dean of the Hutton Honors College at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.^[1] He is also Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs where he teaches and conducts research on international forestry, sustainable development, foreign aid, and the policy sciences. From 2005 to 2008, he was editor-in-chief of the public policy journal, Policy Sciences, and he currently serves on the Executive Council of the Society of Policy Scientists.^[2] Auer earned a Ph.D. in Forestry and Environmental Studies from Yale University in 1996, a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University in 1990, and an AB in Anthropology from Harvard College in 1988.

Auer served as Senior Adviser to the U.S. Forest Service from 2001 to 2006. During that time, he was a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Forum on Forests and to the International Tropical Timber Council, the governing body of the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO). For the United States Agency for International Development and other bilateral aid agencies, he has developed, implemented, and evaluated energy and environmental programs in, among other countries, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Estonia, Poland, Azerbaijan, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam. He has also served as a Presidential Management Fellow at USAID.

Auer has received more than a dozen teaching awards including the President's Award.^[3]

Notable Publications

• Auer, Matthew. 2008. “Presidential Environmental Appointees in Comparative Perspective,” Public Administration Review, 68(1): 68-80.
• Auer, Matthew. 2006. “Contexts, Multiple Methods, and Values in the Study of Common-Pool Resources,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 25(1): 215-227.
• Auer, Matthew. 2004. (Ed.) Restoring Cursed Earth: Appraising Environmental Policy Reforms in Eastern Europe and Russia. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
• Auer, Matthew. 2000. “Who Participates in Global Environmental Governance? Partial Answers from International Relations Theory,” Policy Sciences, 33(2): 155-180.
• Auer, Matthew. 1998. “Colleagues or Combatants? Experts as Environmental Diplomats,” International Negotiation, 3(2): 267-287.

References

1. ^ Indiana University, "Matthew Auer named dean of Hutton Honors College"
2. ^ Indiana University, "Five IU Faculty Members Named Academic Leadership Program Fellows"
3. ^ Indiana University, "Indiana University Founders Day 2005"

External links

• Indiana University Hutton Honors College
• Policy Sciences journal
• International Tropical Timber Organization

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