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Fountain Appointed to Experts Advisory Committee, EROPA

Jane Fountain, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, has been appointed to a three-year term as a member of the Experts Advisory Committee of the E-Government Research Center of the Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration (EROPA). Professor Fountain is the only non-Chinese member of the approximately ten-member Experts Advisory Committee. 

Founded in 1960, EROPA is an organization of states, groups, and individuals in the general area of Asia and the Pacific designed to promote regional cooperation in improving knowledge, systems, and practices of government administration in order to help accelerate economic and social development.

On June 4, Professor Fountain served as the keynote speaker at the first international conference organized jointly by EROPA and the Chinese Academy of Personnel Science, eGovernment Research Center.

Photo: Professor Fountain poses before her invited lecture at Tsinghua University School of Public Policy and Management, China's top public policy school.

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