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James-Christian Blockwood | |
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| Education | Johns Hopkins University (MBA Johns Hopkins University (M.A. in Government) National Defense Intelligence University (M.S. in Strategic Intelligence) Tufts University (B.A. in International Relations) |
| Known for | President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Academy of Public Administration |
James-Christian Blockwood is the 16th President and CEO of the National Academy of Public Administration effective January 1, 2025. He was elected as a Fellow of the Academy in 2015.
Blockwood is an experienced nonprofit executive and former career senior executive in the United States federal government. Blockwood was previously Executive Vice President at the Partnership for Public Service. His prior positions include managing director at the U.S. Government Accountability Office, director in the Office of Policy and Planning at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, deputy director in the Office of International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and intelligence officer at the U.S. Department of Defense.[1]
He is an adjunct professor at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
Blockwood is a community leader on public administration issues, contributing to dialogue in print and active in many civil service organizations. He has written on government, leadership, and democracy issues for Federal Times,[2] the Fulcrum,[3][4] Government Executive,[5] and the IBM Center for the Business of Government.[6]
In 2021, he testified before Congress about the need to modernize the PLUM book, largely because it is out of date by the time it is published, undermining transparency and accountability.[7]
While serving as director of strategic studies at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Blockwood was instrumental in advancing the agency's capacity for strategic foresight; in 2013, he founded the Federal Foresight Community of Interest,[8] which aims to improve decision making. At the U.S. Government Accountability Office in 2018. He helped establish the Center for Strategic Foresight. [9]
Education and Awards
[edit]James-Christian Blockwood received an M.B.A. from Johns Hopkins University, an M.A. in Government from Johns Hopkins University, an M.S. of Strategic Intelligence from the National Defense Intelligence University, and B.A. in International Relations from Tufts University.
In 2015, he was selected for the inaugural class of the Presidential Leadership Scholars program.[10] The Atlantic Council chose him as a Millenium Fellow in 2016. He was also among a select group of federal employees chosen for the 2020 Arthur S. Flemming Award, presented by the Arthur S. Flemming Commission in partnership with the George Washington University Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration and the National Academy of Public Administration.
References
[edit]- ^ Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
- ^ Crisis and leadership: The presidential role in restoring trust Federal Times, 2020.
- ^ Restoring trust in government: The vital role of public servants The Fulcrum, 2024.
- ^ Additional articles by James-Christian Blockwood published in The Fulcrum.
- ^ Let’s Rethink the Management of Our Civil Service Government Executive, 2023.
- ^ Three Grand Challenges for Government IBM Center for the Business of Government, 2020.
- ^ Johnson, Lamar. Congressional Witness Says Plum Book in Need of Modernization MeriTalk (2021).
- ^ Federal Foresight Community of Interest
- ^ U.S. GAO Launches Center for Strategic Foresight International Journal of Government Accounting (INTOSAI, 2019).
- ^ Inaugural Class of Presidential Leadership Scholars Announced (2015)