PUPOL Executive Board
Prof. Richard Callahan
Richard is a Professor at the University of San Francisco, with a joint faculty appointment in both the School of Nursing and Health Professions and the School of Management, as well as Co-Director of the USF MPH program in Sacramento. He is a Principal in the consulting firm of TAP International. He is Editor In Chief of the International Journal of Public Leadership.
His presentations, research, teaching, and consulting focus on strategies and leadership behaviors that are effective in complex, demanding, and dynamic environments in the public and nonprofit sectors.
Prof. Jean Hartley
Jean is a Professor of Public Leadership at The Open University. She is also Academic Director of the Open University Centre for Policing Research and Learning, which is The Open University’s collaboration with 22 UK police forces (2/3 of the UK policing workforce) to create and use knowledge to improve policing for the public good.
Jean researches and teaches in the field of public leadership and management, across a range of public services including police, local government, health, prisons, and civil service.
Dr. Ben Kuipers
Director of the Leiden Leadership Centre and Associate Professor at Leiden University (NL)
In his research and teaching, Ben focuses on public leadership, teamwork, and change in the public sector. The connection between science and practice plays an important role in his work. Next to his academic position, he is a partner at Verbetervermogen – Organization Development, and editor in chief of the Holland Management Review.
Prof. Karin Lasthuizen
Karin is the inaugural Brian Picot Chair in Ethical Leadership at the Wellington School of Business and Government, Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand).
Her research and consultancy work focus on ethical leadership and ethics management in public and private sector organisations and she specialises in methodology for research into organisational unethical behaviours (OUB) such as corruption and fraud. She is co-founder of the international academic research network on public and political leadership (PUPOL) and she is Chair of the Ethics Committee of Transparency International New Zealand.
Dr. Rudolf Metz
Rudolf is a political scientist, whose research interest focuses on studying political and democratic leadership. He gained his Ph.D. in political sciences from the Corvinus University of Budapest in 2019. His post-doctoral research tries to explore populist and charismatic leadership from followers’ perspective.
He is a research fellow of the Institute for Political Sciences in the Centre for Social Sciences (Hungary) and a lecturer at the Corvinus University of Budapest presenting courses on political leadership and governance. He was visiting lecturer at Leopold-Franzens-Universität, Innsbruck Austria.
Dr. Alessandro Sancino
Alessandro Sancino is Associate Professor at The Open University (UK) and at the University of Milan-Bicocca (IT). He has published his works in top journals in the fields of public administration, management, and urban studies. He is a member of the Executive Board of PUPOL (Public and Political Leadership Network) and of the RSA (Regional Studies Association) Publications Committee. His research has been funded by several institutions, such as The College of Policing in the UK, the UK Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, the Netherland Institute of Government, the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR).