Jay Eungha Ryu is Assistant Professor of Public Administration. He has his undergraduate degree in political science from Seoul National University, Korea in 1986. He has his MPA degrees from Seoul National University (1988) and the George Washington University (1998). He has his Ph.D. from the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia (2003).

His areas of specialization are public administration and public budgeting and finance. He has been especially interested in how to improve the productivity of the public sector with a focus on public values. His current research areas have been focused on the evaluation of public revenues and expenditures such as education policy and finance, job training programs, and investment in public infrastructures, budgetary politics and the models of public expenditures, organizational performance and its determinants, and state and local privatization studies.

Dr. Ryu, along with his co-authors, has won the 2004 Herbert Kaufman Award for the best paper in public administration from the American Political Science Association. He is currently working on a book; The Models of Public Expenditures: Supply-Push or Demand-Pull?

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