We were extremely saddened to learn about the death of our former colleague Christopher Hood in early January. Christopher Hood was among the most internationally leading figures in the fields of public administration and regulation.

He leaves an enduring legacy.

We mourn a wonderful colleague and extend our deepest sympathy to his family.

He specialized in the study of executive government, regulation, and public-sector reform and was widely known for his writings on ‘New Public Management,’ the tools of government, public service bargains, and government spending. From 2004 to 2010, he served as director of a major research programme on public services, financed by the UK Economic and Social Research Council, comprising some 46 research projects and over 100 conferences or seminars.

If you would like to find out more about Christopher’s manifold contributions to his field, Explorations in Governance, published to mark his 65th birthday, examines some of the key ideas and themes of his research, with contributions from some of the esteemed colleagues he influenced and worked with.

Professor Christopher Hood previously joined IPPA for an interview reflecting on his early academic research and publications, his tools of government approach, the importance of cybernetics, the use of digital tools in government, and his perspective on how public administration and public policy scholarship would evolve in the future.

You can watch his interview from ICPP3 at the following link.