Faculty

Dr. Doug Morgan is a Professor of Public Administration and Director of the Executive Leadership Institute in the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University.  He has extensive experience in offering professional development programs to senior level leaders at the federal, state and local levels of government.  Dr. Morgan has spent the last 15 years studying the leadership role of career administrators in our system of separation of powers and checks and balances.  He has authored more than two dozen articles and book chapters on ethics, administrative discretion and public service.  His article on "The Limits of Reinventing Government: What Middle Managers do in Local Government" received the Brownlow Award in 1994 for the best article published by practitioners in The Public Administration Review.  Currently Dr. Morgan is completing a Handbook on Public Budgeting and is coauthoring a monograph with Dr. Craig Shinn on The Foundations of American Public Service.  As Director of the Executive Leadership institute, Doug coordinates and participates in the delivery of more than a dozen leadership development programs for more than 30 federal, state and local public agencies in the Pacific Northwest.  In addition, the Institute coordinates the delivery of an Executive MPA Program offered at various sites throughout the State of Oregon.  His areas of teaching specialization and training include public sector leadership, ethics, budgeting, and law. 

Doug has a Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Chicago in Political Science and a B.A. in Political Science from Claremont McKenna.  He spent one year at the London School of Economics and Political science and has participated in three post-doctoral fellowship programs.


Dr. Craig W. Shinn is Associate Professor of Public Administration in the Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University where he coordinates the specialization in Environmental and Natural Resource Policy and Administration.  He has over 25 years of research, teaching and management in the field.  In addition to his teaching and research responsibilities, Dr. Shinn is deeply engaged in the design and delivery of training, education and development programs for natural resource.  Dr. Shinn's intellectual interests revolve around how we create and sustain agreement in society with particular attention to the area of environment and natural resource policy.  Recently, Dr. Shinn and his graduate students have been engaged in research around civic capacity.  In 1994, Dr. Shinn authored Rural Resource Management: Problem Solving Tools for the Long Term with Sandra Miller and William Bentley.  In 1996, he was deeply involved with the 7th American Forest Congress serving on the national board, facilitating pre-congress Round Table processes and leading the analysis team during the Congress.  Most recently, Dr. Shinn has been co-managing the Oregon State of the Environment Report that is a comprehensive assessment of Oregon's environment and is using a civic science process.  Also, Dr. Shinn is currently involved with a feasibility study for a Public Participation Institute in collaboration with the Cascade Chapter of the International Association of Public Participation (IA2P). 



Dr. Marcus Ingle is a Professor of Public Administration and Director of International Public Service in the Executive Leadership Institute in the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University. Dr. Ingle has extensive Federal and international experience having recently directed the USAID Regional Infrastructure Program for Water and Sanitation in Budapest Hungary with Booz Allen & Hamilton. Prior to that Dr. Ingle served as the Project Director for the Vietnam Highways Improvement Project in Hanoi financed through the Asian Development Bank. Dr. Ingle is a specialist in capacity building for leadership and management including participatory and sustainability techniques for infrastructure and environmental projects. At PSU, Dr. Ingle teaches graduate courses in Strategic Management, Program and Project Management, Leadership, Policy Implementation and Governance. For twenty years Dr. Ingle taught graduate seminars at the University of Maryland and at American University on various management topics, such as "The Use of the Logical Framework for Project Design Implementation and Evaluation," "Sustaining the Benefits of Development Projects: Innovative Management Techniques," and "Commercializing Public Sector Organizations: What Techniques Government Agencies can Adapt from Successful Enterprises." Dr. Ingle holds a Masters of Public Administration from the University of Washington and a Ph.D. in Social Science from the Maxwell School of Public Affairs, Syracuse University.

Jeff Hammerlund is an adjunct associate professor at the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, a research scholar at the school’s Executive Leadership Institute, and the president of Northwest Energy and Environmental Strategies consulting firm.  Jeff has held senior staff positions with the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee (during the passage of the Northwest Power Act) and the Department of Energy, and has been a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution.  He has been director of conservation services for Southern California Edison and senior policy analyst for the Public Power Council (a utility trade association), and has consulted with utilities, environmental groups, and government agencies throughout the nation and abroad.  A recipient of two advanced degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he is currently completing his Ph.D. dissertation through that university on new strategies for Columbia River governance in a more competitive energy environment.