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Daniel Alesch
Professor Emeritus, UW-Green Bay, Public Administration
For the past thirty years, Dan Alesch has been conducting policy-related disaster research – research on their consequences, mitigation politics and policy, and business and community disaster recovery. For the past fifteen years, he and his colleagues have tracked the experiences of more than two dozen communities across the country that experienced one or more disasters. The past month, his most recent co-authored book, Managing for Long-Term Community Recovery in the Aftermath of Disaster, was published by the Public Entity Risk Institute.
Alesch received a BS in Political Science and an MS in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MS and Ph.D. in Political Science from UCLA. He did post-graduate work at the Institute for Public Administration, New York, served as a policy analyst in New York State’s Executive Chamber, and was a member of the research faculty of the University of Southern California’s School of Public Administration.
For more than a decade, Dan was a Senior Social Scientist and Project Manager at the Rand Corporation, a not-for-profit think tank headquartered in Santa Monica, California. Rand asked him to be the on-site manager for a housing allowance experiment it was conducting in Brown County, Wisconsin. A native of Wisconsin’s Fox River Valley, he and his family were happy to return to Green Bay. Years later, as the experiment was completed, Dan joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay as an Associate Professor of Political Science and Environmental Administration. At the University, Alesch also headed the Professional Programs in Business and a graduate program in Administrative Science.
Now an Emeritus Professor, Dr. Alesch continues to conduct research, publish books and articles, and speak on the consequences of disaster across the United States as well as in Europe and Asia. He is active in local governmental affairs and not-for-profit organizations. For more than two decades, he has been a member and president of the Green Bay Metropolitan Sewerage District Commission.
Fields of interest: decision theory and methods; policy analysis; planning theory and methods; administrative theory and behavior; public and nonprofit management. Current research: methods for reducing the effects of natural hazard events on business.
Office: MAC B310
Phone: (920)-465-2045
E-mail: ALESCHD@uwgb.edu