Astrid Merget, School of Public and Environmental Affairs

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Astrid Merget, School of Public and Environmental Affairs

Astrid Merget
Dean, IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs

“I think all sectors — public, private and non-profit — have a vested interest in having good governmental mana gement that is effective, creative and honest and that can be a pathfinder in different areas like policies affecting the environment.”
–Astrid Merget

Merget begins her official tenure as the third dean of SPEA Oct. 1. She comes to IU after serving as associate dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and chair of its Department of Public Administration.

She succeeds Dean A. James Barnes, who was appointed to the deanship in August 1988 and returned to teaching at SPEA at the end of June. During Barnes’ tenure as dean, the school became the largest school of public affairs in the country, consistently ear ning high marks in national ratings.

Merget earned her baccalaureate degree from Mount Holyoke College and her master of public affairs degree and doctorate from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse.

She has held faculty appointments at Ohio State, George Washington and Columbia universities and the University of Southern California.

She has served in high-level advisory roles in the federal government as well. While on a year’s leave from her academic responsibilities in 1994, Merget served as senior adviser to the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. That marked a return to Washington, D.C., for Merget. She served as a special assistant to the assistant secretary for policy development and research at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in 1977.

SPEA operates on six IU campuses, providing teaching, research and service in areas such as criminal justice, environmental science, health administration and public policy. The school maintains continuing relations with a large number of public agencies at all levels of government, public and private hospitals and health organizations, nonprofit organizations and corporations in the private sector.

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Publication date: 15 September 2000
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