Emison presents 'A Fulbright Journey to the Kingdom of Cambodia' Monday
Join the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Mississippi State for its Occasional Faculty Lecture Series featuring Jerry Emison on Monday [Feb. 29] at 5 p.m. in 116 McCool Hall. His presentation is titled, "A Fulbright Journey to the Kingdom of Cambodia."
At MSU, Emison teaches city planning, public management and environmental policy. His research interests concern the effectiveness of public environmental institutions, professionalism in city planning and engineering, and environmental consequences of growth management. He is the author or co-editor of three books: Practical Program Evaluations: Getting from Ideas to Outcomes (CQ Press 2006), Speaking Green with a Southern Accent (Lexington Press 2010) and True Green: Executive Effectiveness in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Lexington Press 2012). In addition he has authored over 25 professional journal articles/book chapters and 50 academic conference papers. He was chosen by students to be the departmental Professor of the Year in 2006, 2008 and 2012.
Prior to joining MSU Jerry served in a number of senior executive positions with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as the Director of the Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, as the Deputy Regional Administrator in Seattle and as the Director of the Program Evaluation Division in Washington, DC. Among his activities he was an architect of the Clean Air Act of 1990, supervised EPA’s clean up responsibilities at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation and managed the Spotted Owl controversy for EPA. He was a member of EPA’s Quality Improvement Board and personally trained in TQM about 25% of EPA’s senior executives. As a result of his work at EPA he received the presidential rank designation for meritorious senior executive service.
He received his Ph.D. in city and regional planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also holds additional graduate degrees in Political Science and Engineering Management. His undergraduate work was in Civil Engineering at Vanderbilt University, and was followed by service in the Seabees in Viet Nam. He is a registered professional engineer, a board-certified environmental engineer of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners.
