Alasdair Roberts

Alasdair Roberts is a professor of public policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. 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 served as co-editor of the journal Governance from 2009 to 2017. He received the ASPA Riggs Award for Lifetime Achievement in Comparative Administration in 2022. A Canadian citizen, Professor Roberts received a JD from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University. His web address is www.aroberts.us.