Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management

Plan to attend this popular lunch event to see the presentation of the APPAM Best Dissertation Award, International Comparative Policy Award, Raymond Vernon Memorial Award, Steve Gold Award, and the Exemplar Award.  After lunch, the 2016 Exemplar Award winner, Demetra Smith Nightingale, U.S. Department of Labor, will give a presentation.  Tickets are required for this event and can be purchased through the online registration process or by contacting Meghan Grenda at mgrenda@appam.org.

Demetra Smith Nightingale, PhD, is the Chief Evaluation Officer for the U.S. Department of Labor. In this position, she is responsible for coordinating the Department's evaluation agenda and working with all agencies to design and implement evaluations. She is currently a Professorial Lecturer at the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration at the George Washington University, teaching Program Evaluation. She also serves as a Senior Research Affiliate with the Poverty Center at the University of Michigan and a senior research consultant with the World Bank.

Dr. Nightingale has previously served as a Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute and on the faculty at Johns Hopkins University's public policy graduate program. Additionally, she was an expert advisor to the White House Welfare Reform Working Group in 1992-93. She received her B.A. in Political Science and Ph.D. in Public Policy, both from the George Washington University.