2:58 p.m., April 26, 2007--UD's School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy is hosting the Third Transatlantic Dialogue (3TAD)--“Leading the Future of the Public Sector”--from May 31-June 2 in Clayton Hall. The conference aims to strengthen cooperation between European and American scholars.

Keynote speakers will be Patricia Ingraham, founding dean of the College of Community and Public Affairs at Binghamton University, and Christopher Hood, director of the Public Services Programme at All Souls College, University of Oxford. Robert Denhardt, will lead a workshop featuring his new book, “The Dance of Leadership.” The closing plenary session will feature Geert Bouckaert, director of the Public Management Institute at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

The conference will use the European model of study groups, where participants read one another's manuscripts in advance of the conference, remain in the same workshop in which they present their papers and participate in discussions. Workshop topics include Leading for the Future, Diverse Leaders and Leading a Diverse Workforce, Training and Developing Leaders, Leading in a Multi-sector Environment, Leadership and the New Public Management and Ethical Leadership in the Context of Globalization.

The conference is jointly organized by the American (ASPA) and European (EGPA) networks on public administration research and public personnel policies. It is co-sponsored by UD's School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven's Public Management Institute. For more information, visit [www.ipa.udel.edu/3tad] or send e-mail to [mariaa@udel.edu].

3TAD is a sequel to the first two transatlantic dialogues, “Ethics and Integrity of Governance” (2005) and “A Performing Public Sector” (2006), both of which were held in Leuven, Belgium.