Academic Staff Profile - Claudia Scott

Claudia Scott
BA(Mt Holyoke), MA, PhD(Duke), ONZM

Professor of Public Policy

Tel: 64 4 463-5377
Fax: 64 4 463-5454
Email: c.scott@anzsog.edu.au

Claudia Scott is Professor of Public Policy both at ANZSOG and the School of Government at Victoria University of Wellington (VUW), New Zealand. Prior to taking up university positions in New Zealand, she worked at Planning Research Corporation and the Urban Institute in Washington, D. C. She has been a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution, Yale University and the International Tax Programme at Harvard University.

Professor Scott leads the subject 'Designing Public Policy and Programs' and 'Decision making under Uncertainty', the latter in collaboration with Professor Glenn Withers of the ANU. At VUW, she teaches health policy, microeconomics, strategic policy and management, policy analysis, and local government. She designs and delivers executive development programs for public sector managers and analysts.

Professor Scott is the author of several books, the latest of which is Public and Private Roles in Health Care Systems: Reform Experiences in Seven OECD Countries (Open University Press, 2001). She publishes on a range of policy and management topics, including articles in The Journal of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research, Health Policy, and Agenda. She is currently writing a book about policy analysis and advising in Australia and New Zealand.

Professor Scott led a Ministerial Review of Health Benefits in the mid-1980s and has contributed advice to public sector agencies on health system and policy reforms. She is Team Leader of a five year research project, funded by the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology, on Enhancing the Strategic Planning Performance and Capability of Local Governments.

Professor Scott was awarded an ONZM in 1997 for services to Public Administration and made a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Public Administration in 1998. She is a former Chair of the NZ-US Education Foundation, Chair of the Arts Board of Creative New Zealand and Director of the New Zealand Council on Health Care Standards.