Naim Kapucu, Ph.D., is Pegasus Professor of Public Administration and Policy and former Director of the School of Public Administration at the University of Central Florida (UCF). He is the founding director of the Center for Public and Nonprofit Management (CPNM) at UCF (2008-2011). He is also Joint faculty at the School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs and the Center for Resilient, Intelligent and Sustainable Energy Systems (RISES). Dr. Kapucu received Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Applied Public Policy, Democratic Resilience award jointly hosted by Flinders University and Carnegie Mellon University Australia in 2021. Dr. Kapucu's core research interests are network governance and leadership, decision-making in complex environments, organizational learning and design, and social inquiry and public policy. Dr. Kapucu has published widely in areas of public administration, network governance, and emergency and crisis management. His work has been published in highly ranked journals such as Public Administration Review, Public Management Review, Journal of Policy Studies, Administration & Society, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, The American Review of Public Administration, and Disasters: The Journal of Disaster Studies, Policy, and Management, among others. He teaches network governance, leadership in public service, network analysis, and methodology courses. Dr. Kapucu served and currently serves in several journals’ editorial board including Public Administration Review. He is also founding associate editor of the journal of Complexity, Governance, & Networks. Prior to joining UCF, Dr. Kapucu received his Ph.D. in Public and International Affairs from the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 2003. Prior to that, he earned a Master of Public Policy and Management degree from Heinz College's School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1997. (Longer bio and current CV are available at https://ccie.ucf.edu/profile/naim-kapucu/)Alpaslan Özerdem is Dean of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution. With over 20 years of field research experience in Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, El Salvador, Kosovo, Lebanon, Liberia, Philippines, Sierra Leone, the Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, and Turkey, he specializes in the politics of humanitarian interventions, disaster response, conflict prevention, reintegration of former combatants and post-conflict state-building. He has also taken an active role in the initiation and management of several advisory and applied research projects for a wide range of national and international organizations such as the United Nations and international NGOs. Professor Özerdem has published extensively and, amongst others, is author of Post-war Recovery: Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (I.B. Tauris, 2008); co-author of Managing Emergencies and Crises (Jones & Bartlett, 2011); co-editor of Child Soldiers: From Recruitment to Reintegration (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011); co-author of Peace in Turkey 2023: The Question of Human Security and Conflict Transformation (Lexington Books, 2013); co-editor of Human Security in Turkey (Routledge, 2013); co-author of Youth in Conflict and Peacebuilding: Mobilization, Reintegration and Reconciliation (Palgrave, 2015); co-editor of Local Ownership in International Peacebuilding (Routledge, 2015); co-author of Peacebuilding: An Introduction (Routledge, 2015), co-editor of Conflict Transformation and the Palestinians: The Dynamics of Peace and Justice under Occupation (Routledge, 2017), co-editor of Routledge Handbook of Turkish Politics (Routledge, 2019); co-editor of Comparing Peace Processes (Routledge, 2019), co-editor of Routledge Handbook of Peace, Security and Development (Routledge, 2020), and co-editor of Routledge Handbook of Conflict Response and Leadership in Africa (Routledge, 2021).Abdul-Akeem Sadiq, Ph.D. Associate Professor Abdul-Akeem Sadiq is the director of Master of Public Administration and Master of Public Policy in the School of Public Administration at the University of Central Florida (UCF). He received his joint PhD in Public Policy from Georgia State University and Georgia Institute of Technology in 2009. Dr. Sadiq’s research focuses on organizational disaster preparedness and mitigation, risk perceptions of man-made and natural hazards, community resilience to floods, and collaborative governance. In 2010, Dr. Sadiq, along with two other researchers conducted a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded study in Haiti to understand mass fatality management-related issues following the 2010 earthquake.'In 2014, Dr. Sadiq was awarded the NSF Enabling the Next Generation of Hazards and Disasters Researchers Fellowship. And in 2016, Dr. Sadiq (PI) and another researcher were awarded an NSF grant to study community resilience to floods. In 2019, he also received a supplemental grant from NSF. Dr. Sadiq has published 44 peer-reviewed articles and several book chapters. His publications have been featured in several top journals including Ecological Economics, Risk Analysis, Public Administration Review, Nonprofit Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Natural Hazards, and Natural Hazards Review. Dr. Sadiq has over a decade of teaching experience both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. His teaching interests include Public Administration, Emergency Management, Homeland Security, Public Policy, Terrorism, and Public Safety. Dr. Sadiq is the chair of American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) Section on Emergency and Crisis Management, the past President and Vice President of ASPA Central Florida Chapter, and a board member of several journals, including Public Administration Review.
