Ora-orn Poocharoen (Thailand)
Director, School of Public Policy, Chiang Mai University, Thailand; and Adjunct Associate Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.
With over 13 years of public service experience, Ora-orn Poocharoen has
advised and done research for various institutions in Thailand, including the Office
of Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission, the Office of the Public Sector
Development Commission, the Bureau of Budget and the World Bank, as well as for
organizations such as the United Nations Development Programme, the German
Agency for Technical Cooperation, Transparency International, the Asia Foundation,
Oxfam, the Asia Productivity Organization and the International Budget
Partnership. Recently, she provided consultation services to the Indonesian
Government on talent management in the public sector. She has held various
academic leadership positions at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, where
she was the Assistant Dean of Student Affairs, the Committee Chair for the Master ’s
in Public Administration programme, the Co-Chair of the Teaching Excellence
Committee and a member of the Recruitment Committee. Prior to working in
Singapore, she was a lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn
University, Thailand. There she served as the Deputy Head of the Public
Administration Department and Director of the political science PhD programme.
She is on the board of International Public Management Journal, and she served as
an Associate Editor for Policy Sciences in 2015. Her articles have appeared in
journals such as Public Management Review, Journal of Public Administration
Research and Theory, Public Performance and Management Review, and Journal of
Comparative Policy Analysis. Some of her recent publications are Meritocracy in
Asia Pacific (2013), in Review of Public Personnel Administration; Collaboration,
Coproduction, Networks: Convergence of Theories (2015) in Public Management
Review; and Performance Management of Collaborative Projects: the Stronger the
Collaboration the Less is Measured (2016) in Public Performance and Management
Review. Ms. Poocharoen’s research expertise includes public administration theory,
comparative public management, network management, human resource management,
co-production and public participation. Specific topics include the corruption of
performance information, the role of consultants in the policy process, the
emergence of secondary cities in South-East Asia and smart cities. In 2015, she won
the Annual Teaching Excellence Award at the National University of Singapore. Ms. Poocharoen is currently Director, School of Public Policy, Chiang Mai University, Thailand; and Adjunct Associate Professor,
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.