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William B. Eimicke
International Affairs Building, Room 1402
Director, Picker Center of Executive Education
Phone: 212-854-5593
Fax: 212-854-2710
wbe1@columbia.edu
Biography:
William B. Eimicke is the founding director of the Picker Center for Executive Education of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. The Picker Center runs the School's Executive MPA program, university partnerships, and nondegree professional training programs. Dr. Eimicke also runs the capstone workshop for the MPA program and teaches courses in public management, applied policy analysis, and management innovation. He also teaches at the Universidad Externado de Colombia in Bogotá, Colombia.
Dr. Eimicke served as the director of fiscal studies for the New York State Senate, assistant budget director of the City of New York, and deputy commissioner of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development.
As New York Governor Cuomo's deputy secretary for policy and programs, he represented the governor on all matters concerning economic development and sports. He played a central role in the passage of several landmark programs including the first homeless housing program, the Housing New York program, the construction of several stadia, the construction of a convention center, and the first thoroughbred racing simulcast statute.
Dr. Eimicke later served as housing "czar" of New York State, managing the state's six housing management, finance, and regulatory agencies. He also provided housing policy and management consulting services to Vice President Al Gore's National Performance Review.
He is the author of Public Administration in a Democratic Context (Sage Publications 1974). He also has written Tools for Innovators with Steven Cohen (Jossey-Bass 1998); The New Effective Public Manager with Steven Cohen (Jossey-Bass 1995); The Effective Public Manager, 3rd edition with Steven Cohen (Jossey-Bass 2002); and numerous articles on public management innovation, ethics, competition, and welfare-to-work programs.
Dr. Eimicke has also provided management training and assistance to a wide range of government and not for profit organizations including the Fire Department of the New York, New York Racing Association, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Transitional Work Corporation of Philadelphia, the 92nd Street Y, the Northern Ireland Peacebuilders, and the United Nations Development Corporation.
He is a graduate of Syracuse University and holds an MPA and PhD from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. He previously taught at Syracuse University, Indiana University, Russell Sage College, the State University of New York at Albany, and Baruch College of the City University of New York.
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