Alasdair Roberts

Alasdair Roberts is a professor of public policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. A Canadian citizen, Professor Roberts received a BA from Queen's University, a JD from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University. In 2007, he became the first non-American to be elected as a fellow of the US National Academy of Public Administration. In 2014, Professor Roberts received Canada's Grace-Pépin Award for his research on open government. He received the ASPA Riggs Award for Lifetime Achievement in Comparative Administration in 2022 and the CAPPA Kernaghan award for career achievement in research in 2026. He served as co-editor of the journal Governance from 2009 to 2017.