SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR
UNITED STATES OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT ETHICS
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    Stuart C. Gilman is Special Assistant to the Director at the United States Office of Government Ethics (OGE).  Dr. Gilman joined the office in 1988 and was the first head of OGE's Office of Education.  He currently coordinates policy initiatives and management directives for the agency.  Dr. Gilman is OGE's liaison with the various government and private sector anticorruption communities, including the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency (PCIE).  He is an internationally recognized expert on government management, and has consulted with and spoken to  the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD-Paris), Council of Europe (Budapest), the World Bank and the International Development Bank (Washington), the OSCE (Vienna) and the Rio Group (Ecuador).

    Dr. Gilman also works as OGE's liaison with local, state and foreign governments.  In the latter area he was a member of the American delegation that negotiated the Organization of American States’  InterAmerican Convention Against Corruption.  He has chaired research groups for the OECD on several  public management projects.  He is currently one of five American liaisons with the Dutch government planning Global Anticorruption Forum II.  At the request of the respective governments,  Dr. Gilman has traveled to, and acted as, a consultant to the Administrative Control Authority in Egypt, the Parliament and the Public Service Commission of the Republic of South Africa, The National Office of Public Ethics in Argentina, and the Ministry of Supervision in China.

    Dr. Gilman has  had a distinguished government and academic career including faculty appointments at the University of Richmond and Saint Louis University. He also served as Professor of Public Policy and American Institutions at the Federal Executive Institute where he held a joint appointment with the University of Virginia’s Institute of Government.  He has taught or served as a visiting faculty member at Georgetown University,  George Washington University, the University of Southern California and the University of Gottingen (Germany).

    Dr. Gilman is widely published in the areas of policy and public management  including several books, articles in edited volumes and over thirty  journal articles.  He serves on the editorial boards of Public Integrity and The Journal of Public Inquiry (PCIE); and served on the editorial board of Public Administration Review.  In addition, for almost a decade he  was  the "Integrity in Government  Series” editor for The Public Manager.   Dr. Gilman has been a member of the Fulbright Committee in public administration and was a founding member of the American Society for Public Administration's (ASPA) Center for Accountability and Performance.   He is also a founding member, and current chair, of ASPA’s Ethics Section.

    Dr. Gilman earned his bachelor's degree from the University of New Orleans, followed by a Master's and Ph.D. in political science from Miami University.  He has been a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and a N.E.H. Fellow at the University of Virginia.  He is a graduate of the Senior Managers  in Government Program at The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.  He has been a guest speaker for universities, the private sector and public agencies, in the United States and throughout the world.