James L. Perry is Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Chancellor's Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs Emeritus, Indiana University, Bloomington, and Distinguished Visiting Professor, The University of Hong Kong. He is also affiliate professor of philanthropic studies and adjunct professor of political science at Indiana University. In addition, he has held appointments at Yonsei University; University of California, Irvine; Chinese University of Hong Kong; and University of Wisconsin, Madison.

In 1992, Perry served as special assistant to the assistant secretary for personnel administration, US Department of Health and Human Services. In 1999–2000, he was senior evaluator at the Corporation for National and Community Service. In 2006–2007, he was senior postdoctoral fellow at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He received an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago and MPA and PhD degrees from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.

His research focuses on performance pay in government, public service motivation, community and national service, and government reform. His research appears in such journals as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administration and Society, Administrative Science Quarterly, American Political Science Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Nonprofit Management and Leadership, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, and Public Administration Review. He is the author or editor of several books, including the first and second editions of the Handbook of Public Administration (Jossey-Bass), Civic Service: What Difference Does It Make? (with Ann Marie Thomson; M. E. Sharpe, 2004), Quick Hits for Educating Citizens (with Steve Jones; Indiana University Press, 2006), Motivation in Public Management: The Call of Public Service (with Annie Hondeghem; Oxford University Press, 2008), and the Jossey-Bass Reader on Nonprofit and Public Leadership (2010).

Perry is the recipient of several prestigious awards. He received the Yoder-Heneman Award for innovative personnel research from the Society for Human Resource Management. He also received the Charles H. Levine Memorial Award for Excellence in Public Administration and the Distinguished Research Award, given jointly by the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) and the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. He is a recipient of the Best Book Award from the Public and Nonprofit Division, Academy of Management. ASPA has recognized him with two awards, the Paul P. Van Riper Award for Excellence and Service and the Dwight Waldo Award for career contributions to the literature of public administration. Perry has twice been selected for Fulbright fellowships. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and editor-in-chief of Public Administration Review.

Robert K. Christensen is associate professor and PhD director in the Department of Public Administration and Policy, School of Public and International Affairs, at the University of Georgia (UGA). He is also a research fellow at Arizona State University's Center for Organization Research and Design.

He received his undergraduate degree in Russian from Brigham Young University. He also earned his JD and MPA degrees from Brigham Young University, where he served as the editor-in-chief for the BYU Education Law Journal. He received his PhD in public affairs from Indiana University, Bloomington, School of Public and Environmental Affairs. He has served as a consultant to the United Nations University, Carl Vinson Institute of Government, North Carolina's Mecklenburg County Bar Association, and the National Association of Appellate Court Attorneys.

Christensen specializes in public and nonprofit management. At the individual level, he is interested in the impact of antisocial and prosocial behaviors on public and nonprofit work groups and organizations. The former includes race and gender prejudice; the latter includes public service motivation, volunteerism, workplace philanthropy, and organization citizenship. At the institutional level, he is interested in the relationship between the courts (broadly public law) and public administration. His work appears in such journals as the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Public Administration, Administration and Society, and several law reviews. He is coeditor, with Laurence J. O'Toole Jr., of American Intergovernmental Relations (5th edition, CQ Press, 2012).

Christensen is the recipient of several awards and fellowships, including the Academy of Management (AoM) Public and Nonprofit Division's Best Dissertation Award. From 2012 to 2014, he was a Lilly Teaching Fellow at the University of Georgia; he is currently a UGA Service-Learning Fellow. He serves on the editorial boards for Public Administration Review and Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. He is program-chair-elect of the Public and Nonprofit Division of AoM and will become the division's chair in 2017.