Congratulations – Tenure and Promotion for Popp, Mergel and Kioko

We are very pleased to announce that, as of the Board of Trustees meeting last week, David Popp has been officially promoted to Full Professor, and Sharon Kioko and Ines Mergel have each received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor.

Congratulations to David, Sharon and Ines on this well-deserved recognition of their accomplishments!

David Popp

Professor David Popp’s areas of specialization include environmental economics and the economics of technological change. In addition to teaching Managerial Economics, Economics of Science and Technology Policy, and Environmental Economics, David serves as the Director of the PhD program in Public Administration.  He offers the Advanced PhD Seminar in Policy and Administration for this program.  David joined the Maxwell PAIA faculty in August 2000.  His PhD in Economics was earned from Yale University in 1997.

Sharon Kioko

Professor Kioko’s areas of specialization include public budgeting and finance, the municipal bond market, state and local financial management policy and government and nonprofit accounting.  She teaches the core Public Budgeting course as well as Financial Management of Nonprofit Organizations.  Sharon is a Senior Research Associate within the Maxwell School’s Center for Policy Research. She joined the Maxwell PAIA faculty in 2008 after earning her PhD in Public Affairs from Indiana University.

Ines Mergel

Professor Ines Mergel’s areas of specialization include social media in the public sector, information management, Government 2.0 and social network analysis.  She has taught a number of courses at Maxwell including, Digital Government, Social Media in the Public Sector, the core Public Organizations and Management course, and Government 2.0.  She also joined the PAIA faculty in 2008 after serving as a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Program for Networked Governance at the Harvard Kennedy School. She earned her Doctor of Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) in 2005.