Previously he was Professor of Government and Dean of Social
Sciences at Brunel University (London -1990-98) and Professor
of Public Management at Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (1999-2006).
Christopher is author of more than 50 scientific articles and
author or editor of more than a dozen scholarly books. Several
of the books have been translated into a range of other languages.
Among the better known are Managerialism and the public services
(1990), The essential public manager (2003), Public management
reform: a comparative analysis (with Geert Bouckaert –
second edition 2004) and The Oxford handbook of public management
(with Ewan Ferlie and Lawrence Lynn Jnr. 2005).
In 2004 he received the Hans Sigrist Prize for ‘outstanding
comparative research in the field of governmental reform’
and in 2006 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University
of Vaasa as ‘one of the world’s most well-known
researchers in the field of public administration’. From
1996-98 he was President of the European Evaluation Society
and from 2004-2006 Scientific Director of the Netherlands Institute
of Government. From 1980 to 1989 he was Editor of Public Administration
and since 2005 he has been Editor of the International Review
of Administrative Sciences.
He has also undertaken extensive consultancy and advice work.
This has been performed for a wide variety of organizations,
including the European Commission, the OECD, the World Bank,
H.M Treasury, the Finnish Ministry of Finance, the Dutch Ministry
of the Interior and the Danish Top Executives Forum.
