William Shields
William Shields, Executive Director for the American Society for Public Administration, explains how ASPA is the organization that brings together the academic scholarship and the front-line practitioners in all fields of public service. Public administration transcends international boundaries since Best Practices can be shared. ASPA has memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with counterparts in South Africa, France, Australia and the United Nations. A joint topic for several years has been the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The UN is an extension of public administrators in the international arena to combat diseases, battle climate change, provide public security and move aircraft, ships, mail and weather information worldwide. Nonpartisan public administrators are under attack for carrying out their jobs to provide services for the public good. “Meeting the Challenges on International Engagement” is an ASPA report that focuses on the notion of how international engagement is extremely important to bring together a broad section of public administration professionals to collaborate, coordinate and share information.
