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Title: MPA
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Robert J. O'Neill, Jr., is Executive Director of the International City/County Management Association (ICMA), the membership organization dedicated to creating excellence in local government through professional management. Prior to joining ICMA in December 2002, Mr. O'Neill served as President of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) from January 2000 to November 2002. NAPA is a nonprofit organization chartered by Congress to improve the design and management of federal, state, and local governments. From May through September of 2001, O'Neill was on temporary assignment at the Office of Management and Budget as Counselor to the Director and Deputy Director on management issues. O'Neill's "reinvention" of the government of Hampton, Virginia as city manager between 1984 and 1997 was widely recognized by organizations such as the National League of Cities and Public Technology, Inc. and by writers such as David Osborne and Ted Gaebler, authors of Reinventing Government. In the 1997 book Banishing Bureaucracy, by Osborne and Peter Plastrik, O'Neill's efforts form the basis of a chapter on "Creating an Entrepreneurial Culture" in government organizations. Among O'Neill's many accomplishments were a downtown and waterfront revitalization initiative and development of a nationally recognized "youth-at-risk" program. He received his Master's in Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in 1974. |
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