Clay Westcott

Dr. Wescott is Visiting Lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Director of the Asia-Pacific Governance Institute, and a consultant to the World Bank, UNDP, Belgian Technical Cooperation, and other international agencies.  He has held senior positions with the Asian Development Bank, UNDP, Development Alternatives, Inc., Price Waterhouse and the Harvard Institute for International Development. Among many advisory assignments, he led a major consultancy in the Malawi Ministry of Finance to advise on reorganizing and streamlining public sector financial management in 1987, and helped guide a Kenyan team that produced the first, computerized national budget for the Kenya Government in 1984.

Dr. Wescott has degrees in Government from Harvard College (A.B., 1968, Magna cum Laude), and Boston University (Ph.D., 1980). He is an Editorial Board Member of the International Public Management Journal,  International Public Management Review, and Comparative Technology Transfer and Society, an Individual Member of Transparency International, and Vice President of the International Public Management Network. He has co-edited three books, and frequently publishes articles and chapters in professional journals and books.