Dr. Astrid Merget
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, Lousiana State University
Appointed Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost on August 1, 2007, Astrid Merget’s career includes service in senior executive positions in academia and government. Prior to her LSU post, she served as Dean of the University-wide School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) at Indiana University. She also served as director of the School of Public Policy and Management and as associate dean and acting dean of the College of Business at The Ohio State University. At Syracuse University, she served as associate dean at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and as chair of its Department of Public Administration. She previously chaired the Department of Public Administration at The George Washington University.
Her senior executive positions in the federal government include senior adviser to the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services and special assistant to the assistant secretary for policy development and research at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
A fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, Merget has served as trustee, vice chair and chair of the board. She sat on the board of the Independent Sector as treasurer, vice chair and chair of its Committee on Leadership and Management.
She served as president of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and as a board member of the National Council for Science and the Environment. Merget has been appointed twice by the U.S. Comptroller General, serving on his Research and Education Advisory Panel and the Educators’ Panel. She co-chaired the Task Force on Outcomes at the United Way of America, is a founding member of the Council of
Environmental Deans and Directors and has been a consultant to the International City/County Management Association and numerous other governmental agencies and nonprofit organizations.
Merget graduated magna cum laude from Mount Holyoke College and earned her master’s degree and doctorate from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.
She is the author of many articles and reports on public finance, public administration and non-profit management. Her teaching repertoire corresponds to those fields as well. With colleagues at Maxwell, she completed a major research project on community benchmarking sponsored by the Alfred Sloan Foundation.
