Dr. Craig W. Shinn is Emeritus Professor of Public Administration in the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, faculty in the Center for Public Service and a Fellow in the Institute of Sustainable Solutions at Portland State University. Over his career, Dr. Shinn has directed, chaired and led academic degree programs like Public Administration Department, the Executive Master of Public Administration, the Master of Public Policy and the Public Affairs and Policy PhD Program; professional programs like the Executive Seminar Program in Natural Resource Leadership, the USACE Leadership Development Program and the National Policy Process seminar, and academic departments, centers and institutes. In addition Dr. Shinn has regularly served on public boards, commissions and committees. Dr. Shinn’s teaching includes substantive courses in environmental and natural resource policy and administration, public policy process, analysis and advocacy, organizational theory, development and change and collaborative governance. Dr. Shinn is involved in the community of practice by providing applied workshops, consulting services and outreach in the region, across the nation and globe. Dr. Shinn's research stems from his interests in how policy agreement is created and sustained in society including administrative aspects of adaptive management, social aspects of sustainability, civic capacity building and inter-jurisdictional administration of natural resources. He coauthored Rural Resource Management (1994), co-managed the Oregon State of the Environment Report (2000), and co-authored Foundations of Public Service (2009, 2013). In 2014, he and his former doctoral students contributed to the edited volume, New Public Governance (Morgan and Cook, 2014) which looks at the challenges of implementing policy in a power shared world. A new book on Public Service Leadership, (Morgan, Ingle and Shinn, 2019) integrates thirty years of theory and practice regarding “leading from where you sit” in a world where building trust, improving governing institutions and ensuring commonweal outcomes matter more than ever.