John J. Forrer is a research professor of strategic management and public policy and associate director of the Institute for Corporate Responsibility at the School of Business and associate faculty at the Trachtenburg School of Public Policy and Public Administration at the George Washington University (GW). Prior to joining GW in 1997, Forrer worked for the US federal government and nonprofit and for-profit organizations as an energy and environmental analyst. At GW he has held university positions including executive director of the Institute for Global Management and Research and founder and director of the GW Center for the Study of Globalization. He has researched, taught, and written on cross-sector collaborations and partnerships for fifteen years, emphasizing in particular the role the private sector can play in advancing public policy goals. Other research areas are global governance, sustainable global supply chains, and business and peace. He has coauthored two books on economic sanctions and more than twenty book chapters and journal articles.

James Edwin (Jed) Kee is a professor emeritus of public policy and public administration at the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration. He joined George Washington University (GW) in 1985 after a seventeen-year career in government in New York State and Utah. In New York, Kee served as a legal assistant in the office of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and later became a legislative counsel to the New York State Assembly. In Utah, he held a series of cabinet positions including budget director and executive director of the Department of Administrative Services, the umbrella finance and management department of the state. At GW, Kee was senior associate dean of the School of Business and Public Management from 1993 to 1997. From 1997 to 2003, he was the Giant Food Inc. Professor of Public/Private Management. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of leadership, cross-sector collaborations, contracting out, and public financial management. He has authored or coauthored two other books and more than forty book chapters and journal articles. Kee has conducted a variety of training programs in finance, evaluation, and public leadership throughout the world.

Eric Boyer is an assistant professor of public administration at the University of Texas–El Paso. He was a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he conducted a study on communities of practice within the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT). Within GDOT, he advised officials in the human resource department on issues in training and knowledge management, and he conducted workshops on knowledge-sharing practices for professionals across the agency. His PhD is from the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration, and his MPA is from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. Before graduate school, Boyer spent nearly seven years in the former Soviet Union, working for humanitarian programs and international nonprofits. His publications explore issues in cross-sector collaboration, public participation, knowledge management, nonprofit leadership, disaster management, and public-private partnerships. Boyer contributes to the Transportation Research Board’s Taskforce on Knowledge Management and Subcommittee on Public-Private Partnerships.