Paul light biography

Paul C. Light is Professor Emeritus of Public Service, previously NYU Wagner's Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service, and founding principal investigator.
Paul C. Light is an American political scientist and Professor Emeritus of Public Service at New York University.
Light has written 25 books, and is an expert on government reform, public service, veterans policy, social security, and social innovation.

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Paul Light

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Biography

Paul C. Light is Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service at New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service. Before joining NYU, he was Vice President and Director of Governmental Studies at the Brookings Institution, and Founding Director of its Center for Public Service. He has published extensively on American government, the presidency, nonprofit performance, and organizational excellence, and is the author of 20 books, including The Search for Social Entrepreneurship (2008). He has held teaching posts at the University of Virginia, University of Minnesota, and Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He was also senior adviser to the U.S. Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, and director of the public policygrant program at the Pew Charitable Trusts.

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Paul C. Light

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Paul C. Light is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service at the The Wagner School of Public Service at New York University, and he holds the Dillon Chair at the Brookings Institution where he established the Center for Public Service, in 1999. The author of 19 books on business, public service, and education, he is a familiar voice on NPR's "Morning Edition" and a well-known public speaker on organizational life.

Series

Books:

A Government Ill Executed, June 2008
Hardcover
The Four Pillars of High Performance, December 2004
Hardcover

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Paul Light (psychologist)

Paul Light is a British academic and psychologist. He was the first Vice-Chancellor of the University of Winchester.

Early life

Light was brought up in Weymouth in Dorset and studied Psychology from 1966 until c 1974 at St John's College, Cambridge, where he obtained an MA and also a doctorate.

Academic career

He held a professorship in Psychology at the University of Southampton, and a professorship in Education at the Open University, before becoming Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic) of Bournemouth University. He was appointed Principal of King Alfred's College, Winchester, in 2000.^[1] King Alfred’s College evolved into the University of Winchester in 2005 with Professor Light as its first Vice Chancellor. He retired from the University of Winchester in April 2006. Following this, he was a member of the Board of Governors of the University of Portsmouth.^[2]