Naim Kapucu
Naim Kapucu is a professor at the School of Public Administration at the University of Central Florida (UCF) and the founding director of the Center for Public and Nonprofit Management at UCF. He developed the Emergency Management and Homeland Security graduate certificate program and the undergraduate minor programs at UCF, and served as the Director for the Public Service and Leadership Program at the School of Public Administration from 2007 till 2009.
Kapucu has published widely in areas of public policy and administration, crisis leadership, nonprofit management and disaster management. His work has been published in Public Administration Review, Administration & Society, the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, the American Review of Public Administration, and Disasters. His main research interests are emergency and crisis management, network leadership and governance, decision-making in complex environments, and collaborative public management.
Kapucu is the author of "Network Governance in Response to Acts of Terrorism: Comparative Analyses" (forthcoming in 2012) and "Managing Emergencies and Crises." Kapucu received his PhD in Public and International Affairs from the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs of the University of Pittsburgh in 2003. He earned a Master of Public Policy and Management degree from Heinz College's School of Public Policy and Management in 1997.
Related Resources from Naim Kapucu
Disaster and Emergency Management Systems in Urban Areas
Cities, 2012
