SNAPSHOTS: FEATURED MEMBERS
Group Member
Institute of Public Administration Australia
Individual Member
Dr. Akira Nakamura
FEATURED GROUP MEMBER
INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AUSTRALIA
NATIONAL OFFICE (Secretariat)
Level 1, 240 Margaret Street, Brisbane, QLD Australia 4001
P.O. Box 15624 City East QLD Australia, 4002
Phone: +61 7 3228 2800
Fax: +61 7 3228 2888
Email: info@ipaa.org
The Institute of Public Administration Australia (IPAA) is the Australian professional association for those who see public administration as their profession, whether in the public service, politics, other public sector employment, academia, or the private and the not-for-profit sectors supporting public policy and public programs.
While IPAA’s State and Territory divisions provide members with most day-to-day services (including a wide range of professional development activities such as seminars, workshops and training courses), its National Office serves as the voice of the profession, drawing on the expertise of members and on research and international contacts to communicate with authority both to the membership and to the Australian public on contemporary public administration issues.
The main national activities are:
- The national conference held annually (the 2009 conference will be held in Brisbane in November);
- Roundtables of invited experts to examine in detail issues of national importance (in 2009 roundtables will be held on health governance (March) and the long-term consequences for government of the global financial crisis (July);
- Two journals, the Australian Journal of Public Administration, the peer-reviewed professional journal, and Public Administration Today, a magazine which focuses more on exchange of experiences by practitioners;
- Developing and maintaining international partnerships with like-minded organisations, including New Zealand, Canada, China, the US, CAPAM and EROPA, and contributing to improved public administration amongst Australia’s near neighbours;
- Developing the national IPAA website as a means of improving members’ access to material on good practice.
The Australian Journal of Public Administration (AJPA)
The AJPA is published quarterly and is committed to the study and practice of public administration, public management and policy making. It is a peer-reviewed journal accepting contributions from both academics and practitioners.
The journal focuses primarily on the interests of its Australian readers, but has an increasing international readership. It welcomes manuscripts relating to international developments of relevance to the Australian experience.
>>Visit www.ipaa.org.au for further information.
FEATURED INDIVIDUAL MEMBER
DR. AKIRA NAKAMURA
Professor of Political Science
School of Political Science and Economics and Graduate School of Governance Studies
Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan
Email: nakamura@isc.miji.ac.jp
Akira NAKAMURA had served as both Vice President and Dean of the Graduate School of Meiji University for six years until March 2008. Currently, he is Professor of Political Science in the School of Political Science and Economics and Graduate School of Governance Studies at Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan. Upon the completion of his undergraduate works in Japan, Nakamura left for the United States in 1963. Subsequently, he received his B.A. in political Science at the University of California, Berkeley in 1966. He then moved to the University of Southern California and received a Ph.D. in political science there in 1973. Nakamura taught at the California State University at Fullerton before he came back to Tokyo. Since 1976, he has been with Meiji University, while he is also an adjunct professor at both the University of Victoria, Canada and Local Autonomy College in Japan. In 1986, he was the research fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Nakamura is presently the President of the Program and Research Advisory Committee of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (Brussels) and a former member of the Committee of Experts on Public Administration in the United Nations. He is the incumbent president of Japan Emergency Management Association, while he is the member of both the Board of Governance and the international editor of Public Administration Review. Nakamura has numerous publications in both Japanese and English. These include “A Quest for Improving Global Governance” and “Preparing for the Inevitable: Japan’s Ongoing Search for Best Crisis Management Practices,” in addition to A Scenario for Local Government Autonomy (Japanese). In 2007, Nakamura was awarded a medal of honor from the Government of Malaysia for his contribution to training public officials from that country. Likewise, he was also accorded an honor of recognition from President Sadako Ogata of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in 2008.
Recently, Nakamura was awarded a Plaque of Recognition by the EROPA for his continuous and invaluable efforts to further develop the organization.
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